Faulty Generalization goes by many names like Faulty Generalization fallacy, hasty generalization, and more, but the main idea is that the mind will occasionally draw a broad general conclusion from a minor amount of information or occurrences of some phenomenon. This is typically known as jumping to conclusions and can be a default state of our thinking if we do not guard against it. At the core of Faulty Generalization is the fact that we are using a small sample size to generalize about a much bigger problem, group of people, or happenings. Since one example of something is not necessarily a good indicator of how all other things of its nature will be, this heuristic could lead us astray and cause us to make false assumptions and poor judgments.