Yes—and if authors gave an indication of what sort of evidence they were looking at, it would not be a fallacy. It is fine to report that ‘5/5 of the X that we looked at are Y’, but the claim that ‘X are Y’ is not so fine. Most educated people (for example, science writers) seem to understand this for most cases, but drop their critical thinking when it comes to humans…
Yes—and if authors gave an indication of what sort of evidence they were looking at, it would not be a fallacy. It is fine to report that ‘5/5 of the X that we looked at are Y’, but the claim that ‘X are Y’ is not so fine. Most educated people (for example, science writers) seem to understand this for most cases, but drop their critical thinking when it comes to humans…