Casey, Morgan, and Lawrence are freshman college students, and all of them are staunch Libertarians. It must be the case that all freshmen are staunch Libertarians.
A) Appeal to unqualified authority.
B) Missing the point.
C) Composition.
D) No fallacy.
E) Hasty generalization.

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This is a hasty generalization because the speaker is drawing a conclusion about all freshmen based on a sample size of only three individuals. This is not a representative sample and therefore the conclusion that all freshmen are staunch Libertarians is unwarranted.

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