Jeremy went on a summer vacation to Europe and stayed in Paris for one night.He took a taxi to his hotel and felt that the driver was extremely rude.Upon his return,a friend of Jeremy's asked him how the people in Europe were,and Jeremy responded that everyone in France is rude.Jeremy has fallen prey to the
A)extremity bias.
B)group attribution error.
C)ingroup differentiation bias.
D)law of small numbers.
E)outgroup heterogeneity bias.

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Jeremy's conclusion about all people in France being rude based on a single experience with one taxi driver is an example of the law of small numbers, where he makes a generalization from a small sample size.

Jeremy Went on a Summer Vacation to Europe and Stayed