Leah found a picture of a dress on the Internet that looked blue to her, but she had heard some people thought it looked brown. She said to her friend Emma, who also thought it looked blue, "How could anyone think this dress is brown? We can see with our own eyes that it is clearly blue." Leah is MOST likely making the thinking error of _____, but could _____ to help fix or avoid that thinking error.
A) the red herring fallacy; ask other people a more relevant question about which color they perceive the dress to be
B) hasty generalization; ask other people to view the dress and then go with the majority's opinion about the color
C) naive realism; seek scientific verification of the wavelengths of light that affect subjective perception of color
D) sweeping generalization; find the range within which most people consistently perceive a color and limit her conclusion to that

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The Answer of Leah found a picture of a dress on the Internet that looked blue to her, but she had heard some people thought it looked brown. She said to her friend Emma, who also thought it looked blue, "How could anyone think this dress is brown? We can see with our own eyes that it is clearly blue." Leah is MOST likely making the thinking error of _____, but could _____ to help fix or avoid that thinking error.
A) the red herring fallacy; ask other people a more relevant question about which color they perceive the dress to be
B) hasty generalization; ask other people to view the dress and then go with the majority's opinion about the color
C) naive realism; seek scientific verification of the wavelengths of light that affect subjective perception of color
D) sweeping generalization; find the range within which most people consistently perceive a color and limit her conclusion to that

Leah Found a Picture of a Dress on the Internet