Identify Any Formal Fallacies or Fallacies of Language in the Following

question 28

Short Answer

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.

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Definitions:

Planning Fallacy

The tendency to underestimate the time, costs, and risks of future actions while overestimating the benefits, leading to poor planning and time management.

Underestimating

The act of judging something to be of lower quantity, value, or importance than it actually is.

Project

A planned set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain costs and other limitations.

Overconfidence

A cognitive bias where an individual's subjective confidence in their judgments and abilities is greater than their objective accuracy.