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    Nov 10, 2011, 04:12 PM
    What kind of fallacy is this?
    All Native American students in my accounting class earned A grades, so Native Americans must excel with numerical tasks.
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    Nov 10, 2011, 04:14 PM
    What kind of Fallacy is this?
    All American students in my accounting class earned A grades, so Native Americans must excel with numerical tasks
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    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?
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    Nov 10, 2011, 04:18 PM
    Hello D:

    Just your ordinary fallacy.

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    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.
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