The tendency to overgeneralize, that is to use one, two, or three cases to support an entire argument, is called ________.
A. critical thinking
B. the fallacy of dramatic instance
C. scientific methodology
D. the fallacy of thinking
Answer: B
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a. old girls b. new girls c. women's d. gender
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a. risk factors. b. personal factors. c. extraindividual factors. d. intraindividual factors.
Ethical obligations to one's colleagues in the scientific community: a. require that technical shortcomings and failures of the study be revealed
b. encourage researchers to ignore negative findings. c. encourage researchers to describe their findings as the product of a carefully preplanned analytical strategy. d. require researchers to report only the positive discoveries. e. encourages researchers to not report limitations.
Which of the following occupations has been most likely to experience job displacement?
a. restaurant workers b. nurses and physicians c. sales workers d. machine operators and fabricators e. household workers