Group Assignment 3

1. Type: Inductive generalization

Sample: Strattons first day of class

Target: Strattons anthropology course

Property in question: It will be a great course

Fallacy: This is a hasty generalization because Stratton concludes his opinion on the
entire course based on one day of class.

2. Type: Inductive analogical argument

Sample: Cocktail

Target: The dinner

Basis of the comparison: The quality of the cocktail and the quality of the dinner

Feature in question: The dinner will be as poor as the cocktail.

3. Type: Inductive generalization

Sample: Stortzs friends claim about the friendliness of people in North Carolina

Target: Stortzs bike trip

Property in question: Stortz thinks they are friendly because he is looking forward to his
trip.

4. Type: Inductive generalization

Sample: Uncle Bob does not develop problems from over-exposure to sun

Target: The reports about fair-skinned, blonde, blue-eyed people developing problems
from sun exposure is unreliable

Property in question: Whether the reports are true

Fallacy: This is a biased generalization because Agnes only look at the condition of Uncle
Bob and fail to acknowledge the condition of some other fair-skinned, blonde, blue-eyed
people.

5. Type: Inductive generalization

Sample: One daily glass of wine

Target: Five or six glasses of wine

Property in question: Drinking wine is good for the heart

Fallacy: This is a hasty generalization because Al C. Holic uses a small sample size of
one glass of wine to show that drinking additional amount of wine is good for ones
health.

6. Type: Inductive generalization

Sample: George, Howies wife, and some other people

Target: The country

Basis of the comparison: The lives of some individuals and the wellbeing of the country

Feature in question: The country is in a slump because some people lost their job

Fallacy: This is a hasty generalization because the experiences of a small portion of the
people cannot determine the performance of the entire country.

7. Type: Inductive analogical argument

Sample: The 20% of college professors

Target: The 50% of adult Americans

Basis of the comparison: The 20% of college professor think of themselves as shy, and
the 50% of adult Americans think the same.

Feature in question: Professor Smalley making correlation of the two studies.

8. Type: Inductive analogical argument

Sample: The previous six courses that Juanita had taken

Target: Another course that Juanita is going to take in the next term

Basis of the comparison: The grade Juanita got in her previous six courses and the
expected grade for the next course.

Feature in question: Juanita will earn at least a B in her next course

Discussion: Juanitas argument will be weaker if she were planning to study alone
because she was on her own and had a limited amount of help that she can get.

9. Type: Inductive generalization

Sample: The 1000 surveyed callers to a drug-help hotline

Target: People who use drugs

Property in question: The survey proves that most drug users are not recreational

Fallacy: This is a biased generalization because the survey is only based on the 1000
callers, so it does not represent the overall population since there are many people who do
not call or do not have a phone.

10. Type: Inductive analogical argument

Sample: The Supervisor of the Year award

Target: The couple of people who work in Goldmans division

Basis of the comparison: Awards committees decision and the claims of the people who
work under Goldman

Feature in question: Goldman won the Supervisor of the Year award that he might not
deserve

Fallacy: This is a fallacy of anecdotal evidence because the person thinks Goldman does
not deserve the award based on the complaints that he or she heard from a couple of
people that work under Goldman. The argument is in first person and it is presenting a
narrative. The readers indirectly receive information about the couple of people from the
speaker.