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Hasty generalization is the fallacy of examining just one or very few examples or studying a single case and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects or phenomena. The opposite, slothful induction , is the fallacy of denying the logical conclusion of an inductive argument, dismissing an effect as "just a coincidence ...
An early study of stereotypes of white people found in works of fiction which were written by African-American authors was conducted by African-American sociologist Tilman C. Cothran in 1950. White Americans were commonly viewed as feeling superior to African Americans, harboring hatred for Blacks, being brutish, impulsive, or mean, having a ...
People create stereotypes of an outgroup to justify the actions that their in-group has committed (or plans to commit) towards that outgroup. [20] [35] [36] For example, according to Tajfel, [20] Europeans stereotyped African, Indian, and Chinese people as being incapable of achieving financial advances without European help. This stereotype ...
Those generalizations seek to erase the disparities within the Asian American community, while also being weaponized against other minorities for not living up to those standards. [36] There are major disparities in income between different Asian ethnic groups, with Burmese Americans earning an average of $44,400 a year, whereas Indian ...
Stereotypes of American people (here meaning citizens of the United States) can today be found in virtually all cultures. [1] They often manifest in the United States' own television and in the media's portrayal of the United States as seen in other countries, but can also be spread by literature , art and public opinion .
A generalization is a form of abstraction whereby common properties of specific instances are formulated as general concepts or claims. [1] Generalizations posit the existence of a domain or set of elements, as well as one or more common characteristics shared by those elements (thus creating a conceptual model ).
According to Brezina and Winder, if white people are aware of the relatively disadvantaged positions of black people, the white people are more likely to negative stereotype the black people. If the black people are in a group, the white people are more likely to form a negative status generalization about them. [citation needed]
An example is a probabilistically valid instance of the formally invalid argument form of denying the antecedent or affirming the consequent. [ 12 ] Thus, "fallacious arguments usually have the deceptive appearance of being good arguments, [ 13 ] because for most fallacious instances of an argument form, a similar but non-fallacious instance ...