Generalization- Inductive Reasoning

A while ago my friend quoted most youth smokes cigarette in Malaysia, When i asked him back why do u say that, he says its based on a research that he read in a newspaper. therefore it may conclude that most teenagers between the age of 13-24 smokes. but its a hasty generalization and its not accurate

Hasty Generalization occurs when a premise is a generalization about a class, derived from an inadequate sample. This comes in several forms, the most common of which is overgeneralization, but there is also a special type called 'fallacy of composition'. The assumption that if something is true of every individual unit within a class, that it is also a property of the class. For example, if one person in a crowd can see better by standing on her seat, it does not follow that if the whole audience stood on their seat that they would see better.

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Amir Hisyam