Question

"Circulation fell in the month after the new editor took over the newspaper Oxnard News Herald. The new editor should be fired." Which is not a serious fallacy in this conclusion?
aA. Failing to identify causes
B. Using a biased sample
C. Generalizing from a small sample
D. Applying post hoc reasoning

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is letter "B": Using a biased sample.

Explanation:

Biased samples are those that take part of a piece of information as an absolute truth to identify it as the cause of another event. By doing so, other consequences are left behind which is not appropriate and subjective, that is why these types of positions are fallacies -false beliefs.

Thus, accusing the new editor of the Oxnard News Herald guilty for the drop in circulation is a biased sample because is discarding all other factors that could also contributed to that problematic situation.