Identify the Type of Fallacy in the Following Passage

question 90

Essay

Identify the type of fallacy in the following passage.
"People who attend elite private universities tend to live longer than people who attend state colleges. If we figure out a way to send children of modest means to the elite universities, they would live longer."

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Definitions:

Internal Attribution

The inference that a person is behaving in a certain way because of something about the person, such as attitude, character, or personality.

External Attribution

The process of attributing the cause of someone's behavior to external factors or situations beyond the individual's control.

Internal-Stable

An attribution style where individuals believe that the causes of their behavior or events are due to stable, internal factors within themselves.

Weiner's Model

A theory of motivation and emotion in psychology that categorizes the causes of success and failure along dimensions of stability, locus of control, and controllability.