Unit 6 · Identifying Sufficient Information
Simon Dismisses 1/3 Stat — What's His Mistake?
Lesson 8 of 12
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A news report says nearly a third of Australians go swimming regularly. Simon says: "That can't be true — I almost never swim, and neither do any of my friends." Which sentence shows that Simon has made a mistake? This is a classic hasty generalisation: Simon is using his own small, possibly unusual group to reject a national statistic.
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| Simon is watching a news report which claims that nearly a third of Australians go swimming regularly. |
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Simon: "That can't be true – I almost never go swimming, and neither do any of my friends."
Which one of the following sentences shows that Simon has made a mistake?
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