We are likely to be trapped in the fallacy of hasty generalization in our daily lives, sometimes causing catastrophes. If this fallacy is aggravated by vicious terrorists or religious extremists, it ...

Here at Snopes, we encounter our fair share of logical fallacies, or errors in reasoning, that tend to be more persuasive than they ought to be, and are based on poor or faulty logic. In previous ...

Hasty generalization may be the most common logical fallacy because there is no single agreed-upon measure for “sufficient” evidence. Such examples of hasty generalizations we daily witness ...

When addressing Southeast Asian states as “ASEAN,” foreign investors are often inclined to overlook the individual economic, legal and cultural differences of each country, according to a legal expert ...