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	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Generalization
		A faulty generalization, also known as an inductive fallacy, is any of several errors of inductive inference: 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.
		A generation can also be a stage or degree in a succession of natural descent as a grandfather, a father, and the father's son comprise three generations or stages of successive improvement in the development of a technology, such as computers, automobiles, or microprocessors.
		Their definition of "generation" is given as a cohort-group, in which are all persons born in a limited span of consecutive years, whose length approximates the span of a phase of life given to be approximately 22 years, and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Generalization (670 words)

	Faulty generalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		It is a generalization which is accurate, but tags on a qualification which eliminates enough cases (as exceptions); that what remains is much less impressive than what the original statement might have led one to assume.
		Misleading vividness is a kind of hasty generalization that appeals to the senses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Faulty_generalization (185 words)

	Generalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		there are instances of concept A which are not instances of concept B. Equivalently, A is a generalization of B if B is a specialization of A. For instance, animal is a generalization of bird because every bird is an animal, and there are animals which are not birds (dogs, for instance).
		This kind of generalization versus specialization (or particularization) is reflected in either of the contrasting words of the word pair hypernym and hyponym.
		Whereas a hyponym is one of the items included in the generic, such as lily and daisy are included in flower, and bird and fish in animal.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Generalization (222 words)

	Mission: Critical (Fallacious Generalizations)
		A hasty generalization is one in which there is an insufficient number of instances on which to base the generalization.
		This is a special case of hasty generalization, usually known by its Latin name, argumentum a silentio, or argument from silence, because instead evidence to support the argument, all we hear is silence.
		The first generalization seems to be reasonable enough--at least as far as any reviews can determine the quality of the thing reviewed--but the second substitutes the parts (the staff) for the whole (the restaurant), and so becomes a fallacy of substitution.
	www.sjsu.edu /depts/itl/graphics/adhom/general.html (1472 words)

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		Hasty Generalization Fallacy: A hasty generalization is when one person or action is the assumed way for everyone.
		This is an example of hasty generalization because although teenagers may bet angry, this does not mean that they will automatically reach for a gun each time.
		Another hasty generalization is “The life expectancy of a kid who routinely carries a gun is probably no more than 25 years." This implies that just because someone routinely carries a gun, that they will not live for more than 25 years.
	www.wright.edu /~maurer.16/fallacypaper.doc (286 words)

	Hasty generalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hasty generalization, also known as "fallacy of insufficient statistics", "fallacy of insufficient sample", "fallacy of the lonely fact", "leaping to a conclusion", "hasty induction", "law of small numbers" or "secundum quid", is the logical fallacy of reaching an inductive generalization based on too little evidence.
		See also faulty generalization for other fallacies involving generalization.
		Fallacy: Hasty Generalization, Michael C. Labossiere's Fallacy Tutorial Pro
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hasty_generalization (150 words)

	Logic Loop Thirty Six
		Generalizations must rely on samples which are taken of a class – not on studying everybody or every thing in a class.
		Generalizations are useful because with them you don't need to study every single thing in a class before you make a conclusion.
		A hasty generalization is one in which someone generalizes about a class or group – say, "all Italians" – based on a small and poor sample; perhaps just the Italians that live next door.
	www.christianlogic.com /loop/logic_loop_36.htm (1808 words)

	Hasty generalization, Begging Question, Suppressed Evidence
		Hasty generation is a fallacy that affects inductive generalizations.
		Neither of these arguments commits the fallacy of hasty generalization because in neither case is there any likelihood that the sample is atypical of the group.
		Hasty generalization is otherwise called "converse accident" because it proceeds in a direction opposite to that of accident.
	www.lich-mc.com /vietnam/hasty_generation.htm (1667 words)

	bc skeptics \| critical thinking \| sufficiency: hasty generalization
		Hasty Generalization occurs when a premise is a generalization about a class, derived from an inadequate sample.
		Note: a sweeping generalization is sort of the opposite of a hasty generalization.
		A hasty generalization works in the other direction: we hastily describe a category from too few examples.
	www.bcskeptics.info /resources/criticalthinking/hcf.hastygen.html (284 words)

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		The general form of an inductive generalization is X% of observed F's (the sample) are G. Therefore, X% of F's (the population as a whole) are G. The value of X determines whether the conclusion is a universal or statistical generalization.
		Strength of Inductive Generalizations In general, the strength of any inductive argument has to do with how much support the premises give for the conclusion, how likely it would be that the conclusion is true if the premises were true.
		Hasty generalizations are usually the source of racist and sexist stereotypes since how different members of a particular ethnic group or sex behave is not at all likely to be homogeneous.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jwood/201/ig.txt (2263 words)

	Tutorial- Generalizing
		We often generalize too quickly on the basis of insufficient evidence, committing the fallacy known as hasty generalization.
		Hasty generalization is a fallacy because a single instance doesn't necessarily prove a general rule.
		Suppose we have a general proposition of the form "All S are P." Now consider the individual members of the class of Ss.
	www.wwnorton.com /college/phil/logic3/ch15/general.htm (935 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: The Hasty Heart
		The Hasty Heart is a 1949 melodramatic film which tells the story of a group of wounded Allied soldiers during World War II who rally around a surly, unappreciative Scotsman when they find out he is dying.
		It stars Ronald Reagan as the American, Patricia Neal as the harried nurse, Richard Todd as the Scotsman, Anthony Nicholls as the hospital commander, Howard Marion-Crawford as the British soldier, John Sherman as the Australian, and Orlando Martins as the African.
		The Hasty Heart was remade for television in 1983.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Hasty-Heart (326 words)

	Faulty generalization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hasty generalization is the fallacy of examining justone or very few examples or studying a single case, and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects orphenomena.
		It is a generalization which is accurate, but tags on a qualification whicheliminates enough cases (as exceptions); that what remains is much less impressive than what the original statement might haveled one to assume.
		Statistical special pleading occurswhen the interpretation of the relevant statistic is "massaged" by looking for ways to reclassify or requantify data from oneportion of results, but not applying the same scrutiny to other categories.
	www.therfcc.org /faulty-generalization-30813.html (156 words)

	Accident (fallacy): Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		[follow hyperlink for more...]) fallacy occurring in statistical syllogisms (an argument based on a generalization (generalization: (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus)) when an exception to the generalization is ignored.
		Generalizations that are weak generally have more exceptions (the number of exceptions to the generalization need not be a minority of cases) and vice versa.
		See faulty generalization (faulty generalization: a faulty generalization, also known as an inductive fallacy, is any of several errors...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/accident_fallacy (410 words)

	Hasty Generalization
		This fallacy is committed when a person draws a conclusion about a population based on a sample that is not large enough or is otherwise not representative of the population as a whole.
		The general idea is that small samples are less likely to contain numbers proportional to the whole population.
		Since Hasty Generalization is committed when the sample (the observed instances) is too small, it is important to have samples that are large enough when making a generalization.
	www.hebrew4christians.com /Clear_Thinking/Informal_Fallacies/Hasty_Generalization/hasty_generalization.html (835 words)

	Biased Samples
		This is an example of hasty generalization because the person is drawing a conclusion about all FSU graduates on the basis of just two.
		This is a hasty generalization, since he draws a conclusion based on too small a sample.
		This is also a hasty generalization in that it bases a claim about all German cars on the experience of only three.
	faculty.uncfsu.edu /jyoung/biased_samples.htm (856 words)

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		The general rule is that property should be returned to its rightful owner, and the specific case is the sailor who wants his gun returned.
		This is a hasty generalization.¡& PøPó ¨,Hasty Generalizations (Converse Accident) II¡-- ¨Hasty Generalization¡ 2ó ¨-Hasty Generalizations (Converse Accident) III¡.. ¨ÇOn six different occasions I drank a bottle of Cheapskate beer and found it flat and bitter.
		This argument does not commit the fallacy of hasty generalization because it is unlikely that the sample is atypical of the group.
	users.ipfw.edu /caseldij/PowerPoint/MoreSubtleErrorsOfThought.ppt (698 words)

	Hasty Generalization
		Abstract: Converse Accident or hasty generalization is the fallacy of drawing a general conclusion based on one or several atypical instances.
		Note that the fallacy of converse accident is the opposite of accident.
		Thus, a general statement is made on the basis of insufficient evidence or on the basis of only a few examples.
	philosophy.lander.edu /scireas/general.html (440 words)

	Logic: Logical Fallacies
		It occurs when a general rule is applied to a particular situation in which the features of that particular situation render the rule inapplicable.
		The fallacy of composition is sometimes confused with the fallacy of converse accident (hasty generalization), if both arguments are thought of simply as proceeding from particular statements to general statements.
		Converse accident (hasty generalization) comes from asserting that what is true of one element (or small sample) is thus true of all.
	www.theology.edu /logic/logic23.htm (1879 words)

	Hasty Generalization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Insufficient or nonrepresentative evidence often leads to a hasty generalization." And hasty generalization is a logical fallacy "committed when a person...
		He further said that blaming the military organization is a âhasty generalization.â.
		He said blaming the military for most of the killings was a âhasty generalization.â.
	hasty-generalization.wikiverse.org (282 words)

	Hasty . Hasty . : Hasty 84 368 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hasty is an unincorporated town that was homesteaded in 1886 by W. A townsite was laid out and the Santa Fe Railway named the town for him.
		The Hasty Pudding Cipher is a variable length block cipher.
		Hasty [Show phonetics] adjective He warned against making hasty.
	www.99hosted.com /names19111.html (386 words)

	DIV-COMP1
		The fallacy of composition always moves from part to whole, while hasty generalization moves from specific to general.
		If the conclusion is a general (or distributive) statement, that is, if the attribute in question is being said to be true of each and every member of the class, then the fallacy is hasty generalization.
		This example is a hasty generalization, as the conclusion is making the claim that each and every car made by the Ford Motor Company is a piece of junk.
	csunx2.bsc.edu /bmyers/DIV-COMP1.htm (542 words)

	Logical Fallacies
		Description: Sweeping Generalization occurs when a general rule is applied to a particular situation in which the features of that particular situation render the rule inapplicable.
		A sweeping generalization is the opposite of a hasty generalization.
		This fallacy is also known as the "hasty generalization." It is a fallacy that takes evidence from several, possibly unrepresentative, cases to a general rule; generalizing from few to many.
	education.gsu.edu /spehar/FOCUS/EdPsy/misc/Fallacies.htm (2078 words)

	Ask BDB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Lincoln-Douglas debate, hasty generalization arguments are important because judges expect affirmatives to support the resolution as a whole rather than by using a small example.
		Hasty generalization rewards shallow research because teams are not rewarded for finding more specific information and advocacy.
		Hasty generalization depends on an arbitrary line between the typical and the atypical.
	www.wcdebate.com /5askjim/hasty.html (163 words)

	Some Fallacies
		The Hasty Generalization is a statistical no-no, when an observation of a rather small group is assumed to apply to a larger group.
		As an aside, from time to time I see a generalization that is inacurate or just plain false get labeled as a "sweeping generalization." Loosely speaking, this is a correct use of language, but it must be noted that a bad generalization should not be confused with the Sweeping Generalization fallacy.
		In general, the weak analogy fallacy is when the case and its analogy have too many or large dissimilarities.
	www.tektonics.org /guest/fallacies.html (5276 words)

	Solutions to Practice Exam 3A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Explain the difference between a hasty generalization and a false cause.
		A hasty generalization is a fallacy in which an arguer draws a conclusion about all members of a group based on the characteristics of a few members, even though there is no reason to think that those few are typical of the entire group.
		The difference is that a hasty generalization does not have to be about any sort of causal effect (the hasty generalization that all swans are white is not about any causal connection).
	mind.ucsd.edu /syllabi/00-01/phil10/practice/practice3A_solutions.html (1476 words)

	PE029
		Mitchell has selected a verse that speaks of sinful usury in a particular kind of case (a poor brother) and mistakenly generalized this part to be the whole of what is forbidden regarding usury.
		This limitation is unwarranted and unwittingly overlooks contrary evidence pertaining to the general sin of usury.
		But it would be hasty generalization to think that this is the only kind of usurious loan that God's word forbids.
	www.cmfnow.com /articles/pe029.htm (1110 words)

	Logical fallacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In philosophy, the term logical fallacy properly refers to a formal fallacy: a flaw in the structure of a deductive argument which renders the argument invalid.
		However, it is often used more generally in informal discourse to mean an argument which is invalid for any reason, and thus encompasses informal fallacies – those which are invalid for reasons other than structural flaws, such as an error in the premises – as well as formal fallacies.
		The presence of a formal fallacy in a deductive argument does not imply anything about the argument's premises or its conclusion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Logical_fallacy (478 words)

	Talk:Hasty generalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It couples this with the assertion that they should be sanctioned.
		Nowhere in the argument do I see a hasty generalization.
		The last two examples (drugs and radical feminism) seem to be there more for the purpose of advancing the author's political agendas than illustrating the fallacy in question.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Hasty_generalization (142 words)

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