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    Hasty generalization is when conclusions are drawn about a whole class based on limited evidence such as a small sample size, bias, laziness, or insufficient reasoning. Common reasons for hasty generalization include bias, prejudice, and laziness. Examples include concluding all birds in Manila are white based on seeing two, concluding all bus drivers are impatient based on one experience, and concluding all feminists hate men based on interactions with one feminist.

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    Hasty generalization is when conclusions are drawn about a whole class based on limited evidence such as a small sample size, bias, laziness, or insufficient reasoning. Common reasons for hasty generalization include bias, prejudice, and laziness. Examples include concluding all birds in Manila are white based on seeing two, concluding all bus drivers are impatient based on one experience, and concluding all feminists hate men based on interactions with one feminist.

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    Hasty generalization is when conclusions are drawn about a whole class based on limited evidence such as a small sample size, bias, laziness, or insufficient reasoning. Common reasons for hasty generalization include bias, prejudice, and laziness. Examples include concluding all birds in Manila are white based on seeing two, concluding all bus drivers are impatient based on one experience, and concluding all feminists hate men based on interactions with one feminist.

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    HASTY GENERALIZATION

    Also known as:


    Fallacy of Insufficient Statistics
    Fallacy of Insufficient Sample
    Leaping to A Conclusion
    Hasty Induction
    Converse Accident
    Hasty generalization is a type of informal fallacy (an argument whose stated premises fail to support
    its proposed conclusion people commit when they draw conclusions a!ut all the persons or things in a
    given class on the !asis of our knowledge a!out one (or only a very few of the mem!ers of that class"
    #hen does hasty generali$ation often committed%
    It is often committed when the sample is too small" #hen making a generai$ation& it is important
    to have samples that are large enough"
    Common reasons why people tend to generali$e hastily%
    !ias or pre'udice
    o ()ample: Someone who is a se)ist might conclude that all women are unfit to fly 'et
    fighters !ecause one woman crashed one"
    la$iness or sloppiness
    o It is very easy to simply leap to a conclusion and much harder to gather an ade*uate
    sample and draw a 'ustified conclusion"
    Examples:
    +" ,ark& who is from -am!oanga& decides to attend graduate school at ./- 0niversity" He has
    never !een to ,anila !efore" 1he day after he arrives& he is walking !ack from an orientation
    session and sees two white (al!ino !irds chirping on a tree" In his ne)t letter home& he tells his
    family that !irds in ,anila are white"
    2" 3am is riding her !ike in her home town in Antipolo& minding her own !usiness" A !us comes up
    !ehind her and the driver starts !eeping his horn and then tries to force her off the road" As he
    goes !y& the driver yells 4get on the sidewalk where you !elong54 After seeing that it is a !us& 3am
    concludes that all !us drivers are impatient"
    6" 3eter: 4/ou know& those feminists all hate men"4
    7uan: 48eally%4
    3eter: 4/eah" I was in my philosophy class the other day and that 8achel chick gave a
    presentation"4
    7uan: 4#hich 8achel%4
    3eter: 4/ou know her" She9s the one that runs that feminist group over at the #omen9s Center"
    She said that men are all se)ist pigs" I asked her why she !elieved this and she said that her last
    few !oyfriends were real se)ist pigs" 4
    7uan: 41hat doesn9t sound like a good reason to !elieve that all of us are pigs"4
    3eter: 41hat was what I said"4
    7uan: 4#hat did she say%4
    3eter: 4She said that she had seen enough of men to know we are all pigs" She o!viously hates
    all men"4
    7uan: 4So you think all feminists are like her%4
    3eter: 4Sure" 1hey all hate men"4

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