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| 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 |
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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. -
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Generalization (logic)
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Generalization
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Faulty generalization
The overwhelming exception is related to the hasty generalization, but working from the other end. -
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Generalization (disambiguation)
Hasty Generalization a logical fallacy of faulty generalization -
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Generalization error
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Accident (fallacy)
Related inductive fallacies include: overwhelming exception, hasty generalization. -
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Cognitive distortion
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Informal fallacy
In such a case, a hasty generalization occurs when the number of Ps and Qs is insufficient to represent the respective populations. -
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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.
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