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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 ...
Hasty generalization (fallacy of insufficient statistics, fallacy of insufficient sample, fallacy of the lonely fact, hasty induction, secundum quid, converse accident, jumping to conclusions) – basing a broad conclusion on a small or unrepresentative sample.
The most common form of the fallacy is the use of anecdotes to create a fallacy of Hasty Generalization. Language surrounding the fallacy must indicate a logical conclusion, and includes absolute statements such as "every", "all", and so forth. However, other forms of the fallacy exist.
As the great Tom Waits once sang, in a tune that is all taunt, “Perhaps you were a little — hasty, hehehe.” Perhaps a lot of us were. Perhaps a lot of us were.
Generalizing quickly and sloppily (hasty generalization) (secundum quid) Using an argument's connections to other concepts or people to support or refute it, also called "guilt by association" (association fallacy) Claiming that a lack of proof counts as proof (appeal to ignorance) In humor, errors of reasoning are used for comical purposes.
The article strongly implies that hasty generalizations are mostly wrong. In day-to-day life, however, they are mostly (though far from always) right, which is how they are a type of cognitive bias. Hanxu9 10:57, 17 June 2012 (UTC) Many of Wikipedia's pseudoscience pages are. . .um. . .pessimistic. They focus on verifying the article's topic's ...
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