If you have five friends who tell you they all have had great experience with their purchase of a Chevrolet,and you used this evidence to decide to buy a Chevrolet,you would be using:
A)consumer self-report and evaluation
B)deductive statistics
C)generalization
D)independent judgment
E)statistical logic

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The person is using generalization, which means making a conclusion about a whole group of things based on the experiences of a smaller group within that group. In this case, the person is generalizing from their friends' positive experiences with Chevrolet to assume that all Chevrolet cars are great.

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