Editing Faulty generalization (section)

===Alternative names===
The fallacy is also known as:
*Black swan fallacy 
*Illicit generalization
*Fallacy of insufficient sample
*Generalization from the particular
*[[Jumping to conclusions|Leaping to a conclusion]]
*Blanket statement
*Hasty induction
*Law of small numbers
*Unrepresentative sample
*''[[Secundum quid]]''

When referring to a generalization made from a single example, the terms ''fallacy of the lonely fact'',<ref name="Fischer">{{Cite book |first=David Hackett |last=Fischer |title=Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought |year=1970 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-131545-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/historiansfallac00fisc |url-access=registration |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historiansfallac00fisc/page/109 109]–110}}</ref> or the ''fallacy of proof by example'', might be used.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.auburn.edu/~marchjl/fallacies.htm |title=Logical Fallacies |first=Jamie |last=Marchant |access-date=2011-04-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120630223544/http://www.auburn.edu/~marchjl/fallacies.htm |archive-date=2012-06-30 }}</ref>

When evidence is intentionally excluded to bias the result, the fallacy of exclusion—a form of [[selection bias]]—is said to be involved.<ref name="UnrepresentativeSample">{{cite web | title=Unrepresentative Sample | url=http://www.changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/fallacies/unrepresentative_sample.htm | access-date=2008-09-01 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415203831/http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/fallacies/unrepresentative_sample.htm | archive-date=2008-04-15 }}</ref>