hasty generalization
Jumping to conclusions
A hasty generalization is a conclusion drawn from insufficient evidence—reaching a broad claim based on too few examples or unrepresentative cases.
After two bad meals, he declared the entire cuisine worthless.
The fallacy mistakes a small sample for a reliable pattern.
Also called jumping to conclusions.
- jumpingPropelling oneself airborne
- jumping to conclusionsForming judgments prematurely
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- rush to judgmentHasty conclusion without evidence
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
first impressions · stereotype · sweeping · painting with broad strokes · oversimplification · prejudice · snap judgment · fallacy · faulty reasoning · straw man · rushed · reckless · blanket statement · cherry-picking · anecdotal · small sample · bias · leaping
- debate tacticsexaggeration, appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, logical fallacy, straw man
- fallaciesstraw man, red herring, circular reasoning, ad hominem, fallacy
- logical fallaciesfallacy, straw man, ad hominem, red herring, false dilemma
- rhetoric termsethos, pathos, logos, ad hominem, oratory
- thinking errorsad hominem, straw man, slippery slope, confirmation bias, sunk cost fallacy
- Thinking Trapsbias, negativity bias, optimism bias, confirmation bias, cognitive bias
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Combined study statistics
due diligence · systematic research · empirical study · statistical significance · evidence-based reasoning
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