Logical Fallicies: Overgeneralizing

Overgeneralizing is not considering all of the aspects that go into an issue. What happens when someone does this is a diminishing of the significance of all of the pieces that go into something. When a person overgeneralizes they are not seeing how all of the things that make up the issue interact and make the issue in the first place.

How to avoid overgeneralizing: An example of overgeneralization is "there would be no car accidents if everyone obeyed all of the traffic laws." What makes this overgeneralizing is that they think that the lack of obeying traffic laws is based on not wanting to or could simply be fixed if people made the decision to follow them. What relates to the issue of not following traffic laws, which might lead to an accident, are things like sleep deprivation or talking on the phone while driving. Therefore there are more reasons why traffic accidents occur other than people not choosing to follow traffic laws.


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