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Davidsonc3
Nov 10, 2011, 04:12 PM
All Native American students in my accounting class earned A grades, so Native Americans must excel with numerical tasks.

Davidsonc3
Nov 10, 2011, 04:14 PM
All American students in my accounting class earned A grades, so Native Americans must excel with numerical tasks

odinn7
Nov 10, 2011, 04:15 PM
What are you trying to get at? There's no question so, is this just a statement you want to talk about?

excon
Nov 10, 2011, 04:18 PM
Hello D:

Just your ordinary fallacy.

excon

SkyRoller
Nov 10, 2011, 11:31 PM
It's what's known as a sweeping generalization. In other words characteristics of a tiny population are generalized onto the entire population. For instance, the last person to win the lottery was Asian, therefor Asians are lucky people.