Hasty generalization
From Summa Bergania
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Examples
- My first wife was unfaithful. So was my second. Women just can't be trusted.
- Last month I asked Susan to the prom and she said Tom already asked her. Last week she couldn't go to the movies because she was going with her family to the lake. I wonder why she doesn't like me.
- I got a D on my first test. I must be dumb!
- The welfare system is a gigantic ripoff. I know a guy who runs a gambling operation and drives his new Cadillac downtown each week to collect his welfare check.
- It's a waste of time to spend four years getting a college education when you consider what some people have accomplished without one.
