Describe and provide an example of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness. Explain why it is ...

•   This is a danger associated with using secondary data analysis and existing statistics.
•   The danger is that a researcher may quote statistics in great detail to give an impression of scientific rigour; however, this can lead to the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, which happens when someone gives a false impression of precision by quoting statistics in greater detail than is actually necessary (“overloading” the details). For example, existing statistics report the population of Canada as
34 443 466 but it is better to say that it is approximately 34 million.