As part of his work for NASA, Dr. Murdock was asked to find out what percentage of people in the continental united States saw Haley's Comet when it was last visible. He randomly selected three major cities, Seattle, Cleveland, and Boston, and polled 1000 randomly selected people from these cities. He finds that fewer than 5% of the people he interviewed saw the comet, so he concludes that fewer than 5% of people in the continental United States saw the comet. Discuss whether Murdock is using a generalization or an analogy, name the sample and the target, and discuss whether there are any fallacies present in the argument (if so, why; if not, why not?).
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1. As part of his work for NASA, Dr. Murdock was asked to find
out what percentage of people in the continental united States
saw Haley's Comet when it was last visible. He randomly
selected three major cities, Seattle, Cleveland, and Boston, and
polled 1000 randomly selected people from these cities. He
finds that fewer than 5% of the people he interviewed saw the
comet, so he concludes that fewer than 5% of people in the
continental United States saw the comet. Discuss whether
Murdock is using a generalization or an analogy, name the
sample and the target, and discuss whether there are any
fallacies present in the argument (if so, why; if not, why not?).
