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Hasty Generalization Examples. Hasty generalization is a type of logical fallacy. A fallacy is an argument that is based on mistaken reasoning. When one makes a hasty generalization, he applies a belief to a larger population than he should based on the information that he has.
Interesting fact. The idea that haste is counterproductive originated in antiquity and is first seen in print in the apocryphal Book of Wisdom, c. 190 BCE: âThere is one that toilet and laboureth, and maketh haste, and is so much the more behind.â.