A traveler claims: 'I visited two restaurants in Thessaloniki and both had poor service; therefore, all Greek restaurants have terrible service.' What fallacy is present?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. hasty generalization
- Step 1: The speaker forms an absolute, sweeping judgment about thousands of dining establishments based on a tiny sample of two meals. Formulating an overarching claim from an inadequate and unrepresentative sample size is a hasty generalization. Answer: hasty generalization. Why not the others: "false dilemma dichotomy" presents two alternatives as the only possibilities when more options exist; "circular logic tautology" relies on a premise that already presupposes the truth of the conclusion; "genetic origin fallacy" dismisses an idea based solely on where or from whom it historically originated.
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