When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on national health insurance reform legislation in 2012, many people thought the conservative court would rule it unconstitutional. A CNN reporter read the first page of the multipage decision, which seemed to suggest that the Court had ruled the health insurance reform plan unconstitutional. The reporter announced that the Court had struck the legislation down as unconstitutional. Later, however, the unread pages of the document made it clear that the Court had ruled it was constitutional. What is the thinking error involved in this example?

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The thinking error involved in this example is a hasty generalization, where the reporter made a quick conclusion based on the limited information (the first page) without reading and understanding the entire decision.