A bad analogy is considered a fallacy because it leads to a false conclusion. He suggested that being the president is similar to being the quarterback of a football team and the vice-president is similar to another player on the same team. Now it is true that one doesn't normally tackle their own quarterback. However, it might be appropriate if the quarterback was running for the wrong end zone. Statistical Induction Statistical induction is a particular type of generalization where statistical evidence from a sample is said to give meaningful information about the target population.
Statistics are often very useful, but there can be pitfalls.
The subject of statistics is quite complex, requiring entire courses to fully understand. For this course is will be useful to have several simple questions which one can ask regarding any statistic. This is especially important there are statistics being compared. For instance, more people died in traffic accidents in the U.S. than in the Vietnam war during the same period. These things aren't comparable for several reasons.