What's the name of the fallacy for using "localised" examples to suggest a "systemic" problem? [duplicate]
For e.g
"All Muslims are terrorists, that muslim guy knifed that girl in London last month"
"All white men have privilege, just look at any senior level boardroom"
(not the same as the fallacy for associating a group with the actions of a few)
Solution 1:
Hasty Generalisation
Fallacy of insufficient statistics, fallacy of insufficient sample, fallacy of the lonely fact, leaping to a conclusion, hasty induction, secundum quid, converse accident – basing a broad conclusion on a small sample.
Source: Wikipedia
Drawing a conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the typical or average situation.
- Sample S is taken from population P.
- Sample S is a very small part of population P.
- Conclusion C is drawn from sample S and applied to population P.
Source: Logically Fallacious
Apparently, it goes under several guises:
- Illicit generalization
- Fallacy of insufficient sample
- Generalization from the particular
- Hasty induction
- Law of small numbers
- Unrepresentative sample
- Secundum quid
Solution 2:
Faulty Generalization
A faulty generalization is a conclusion about all or many instances of a phenomenon that has been reached on the basis of just one or just a few instances of that phenomenon. It is an example of jumping to conclusions. For example, we may generalize about all people, or all members of a group, based on what we know about just one or just a few people.
(Wikipedia)