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Identify Any Formal Fallacies or Fallacies of Language in the Following

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Identify any formal fallacies or fallacies of language in the following passage.
The average family has two-and-a-half children. The Hansons, next door, are an average family, so they must have two-and-a-half children. I don't know, maybe a stepson or something.


Definitions:

Population Means

The average value of a particular characteristic in the entire population being studied.

Z-Value

A measure of how many standard deviations an element is from the mean.

Upper Confidence Bound

A value at the upper end of a confidence interval, indicating the highest value that, with a certain level of confidence, is believed to enclose the true population parameter.

Population Proportion

The proportion of a certain outcome or characteristic within an entire population.

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