If you visit garages and see that most of the cars there are Toyotas, you tend to conclude that Toyota is a bad car because they are the most that need fixing at garages. The fact is your reasoning does not put into account the number of Toyota cars on the street and thereby ignore the percentage information.

What do you call this kind of conclusion in theory?
If you visit garages and see that most of the cars there are Toyotas, you tend to conclude that Toyota is a bad car because they are the most that need fixing at garages. The fact is your reasoning does not put into account the number of Toyota cars on the street and thereby ignore the percentage information.

What do you call this kind of conclusion fallacy in theory?
If you visit garages and see that most of the cars there are Toyotas, you tend to conclude that Toyota is a bad car because they are the most that need fixing at garages. The fact is your reasoning does not put into account the number of Toyota cars on the street and thereby ignore the percentage information.

What do you call this kind of conclusion fallacy in theory? Anybody heard of the Halo Effect?

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