Asked by Avery Williams

Which logical fallacy is used in the text?
My grandfather eats candy all the time, and he's still got all of his teeth! Candy must not really rot people's teeth out.
A. bandwagon fallacy: the assumption that the popular choice is automatically correct
B. appeal to nature: the assumption that natural things are always good
C. hasty generalization: a very broad claim based on very little evidence

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
C. hasty generalization — the speaker draws a broad conclusion about candy from a single anecdote (one grandfather), which is insufficient evidence.