Samantha questioned the corporate Factory Site Expert's claims that the company had created jobs and done wonderful things in two other towns so the same things would happen here and so no further issues would be involved. She challenged their claims, which used non-scientific basis of knowledge EXCEPT .

Question options:

A) tradition

B) authority

C) overgeneralization

D) premature closure

E) selective observation

A) tradition

Explanation:

The factory expert's claim used non-scientific basis of knowledge which entails not making use of scientific methods of knowledge acquisition such as the testing knowledge hypothesis and verifying them to be true. The expert made overgeneralisation(an error in thinking) as he drew conclusions from two examples and generalised to future experiences, also drawing from other shaky non-scientific knowledge bases such as: premature closure, selective observation and authority. However "tradition" as a non-scientific basis of knowledge did not apply here.