1. For each sentence, state whether the statement is logical or faulty. If it is a faulty statement, name the type of faulty thinking used and explain why.

Example

Larry saw Greg talking to his girlfriend at noon. Greg must have been asking his girlfriend out on a date.

Answer

Faulty thinking
Hasty Generalization - Larry has no information about the conversation between Greg and his girlfriend.

1. After talking to three doctors, reading twelve current medical reports, and looking at electronic medical journals on the Internet, Kim decided to eat foods with less fat.
2. If that grey-haired, senile, cop could stop eating donuts long enough, the crime rate would go down by twenty percent.
3. Bert interviewed five people in his class. Eighty percent of the people he surveyed felt that the local music station should switch to “heavy metal” rock twenty-four hours a day. Bert concluded that eighty percent of the people in Fredericton would listen to that radio station if they switched to “heavy metal”.