80% of the Americans being surveyed believe that climate change is unreal. Therefore, climate change is indeed a fiction. What kind of informal fallacy is the above statement?

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80% of the Americans being surveyed believe that climate change is unreal. Therefore, climate change is indeed a fiction. What kind of informal fallacy is the above statement? A. Appeal to common practice

B. Appeal to pity

C. Appeal to common belief

D. Appeal to spite

E. The fallacy of begging the question

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The correct answer is: C. Appeal to common belief. This informal fallacy occurs when something is claimed to be true simply because many people believe it. In the statement, the belief of 80% of Americans is used to assert that climate change is a fiction, rather than providing evidence or reasoning to support that claim. Just because a majority believes something does not make it true.

80% of the Americans being surveyed believe that climate change is unreal. Therefore, climate change is indeed a fiction. What kind of informal fallacy is the above statement?

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