Question

Yasmine learns that people who ride motorcycles are far more likely to die in highway accidents than members of the general population. This is actually true, and she learned it from a completely reliable source. But because of this, when she hears that someone has died in a highway accident, she tends to think it is probably someone on a motorcycle. What error of reasoning is she most obviously committing

Answer 1

Answer: Jumping to conclusions (in an inference)

Explanation:

Yasmine is basing her assumption on one piece of information she has. Instead of further investigating the accident, she jumps to conclusions and assumes a motorcycle was involved, when it very well could have been a car involved, rather than a motorcycle.

Answer 2

Answer:

She's jumping to conclusions

There are still plenty of other ways to have an accident on the highway

Explanation: