Keyboard shortcuts: On toggle Off  
Finding:
Freebase
searching
Factz
searching
Articles
searching

Hasty generalization

freebase

 
Hasty generalization is a logical fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence. It commonly involves basing a broad conclusion upon the statistics of a survey of a small group that fails to sufficiently represent the whole population. Its opposite fallacy is called slothful induction, or denying the logical conclusion of an inductive... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

Wikipedia Articles

results 1 - 10 of 541 hide highlighting  
  1. close

    Hasty generalization

    Hasty generalization is a logical fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence. It commonly involves basing a broad conclusion upon the statistics of a survey of a small group that fails to sufficiently represent the whole population.
  2. close

    Generalization (logic)

    Hasty generalization
  3. close

    Generalization

    Hasty generalization
  4. close

    Faulty generalization

    The overwhelming exception is related to the hasty generalization, but working from the other end.
  5. close

    Generalization (disambiguation)

    Hasty Generalization a logical fallacy of faulty generalization
  6. close

    Generalization error

    Hasty generalization
  7. close

    Accident (fallacy)

    Related inductive fallacies include: overwhelming exception, hasty generalization.
  8. close

    Cognitive distortion

    (See hasty generalization.)
  9. close

    Informal fallacy

    In such a case, a hasty generalization occurs when the number of Ps and Qs is insufficient to represent the respective populations.
  10. close

    Misleading vividness

    This fallacy is a kind of hasty generalization when an inductive generalization is a necessary premise and a single (albeit vivid) example is not sufficient to support such a generalization.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

quillback_5_20090702:parse:serp:Hasty\sgeneralization
Hasty generalization