"Female bosses are more nurturing. I know because I've had two of them." This is an example of which of the following fallacies of reasoning?
A) transfer
B) appeal to tradition
C) straw man
D) anecdotal evidence
Answer: D) anecdotal evidence
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Jesse argued in his speech that drug use really isn't a problem among teens because hardly anyone he
knows has even tried drugs. In this argument Jesse's friends are used as examples, but this reasoning by example fails because the examples are A) unrepresentative. B) analogous. C) hypothetical. D) false. E) aggregate.
In a debate, Laura states that corruption in the United States has decreased. She substantiates this claim by comparing the number of instances of bribery of the present year to that of the previous year. In this case, Laura is _____.
a. arguing from analogy b. arguing from causation c. arguing from example d. arguing from sign