When Nicole said, "It is dangerous to work in a fast food restaurant at night. I used to work in one and I was robbed one night," you recognized this fallacy as
A) a bandwagon fallacy.
B) an ad hominem.
C) a hasty generalization.
D) a red herring.

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This is a hasty generalization fallacy because Nicole is drawing a conclusion about all fast food restaurants being dangerous based on her personal experience of being robbed one night at one particular restaurant. This conclusion is not necessarily true for all fast food restaurants.

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