Often I have heard female students saying something like, "My boyfriend has never shown any real concern for my feelings; therefore, all men are selfish, insensitive, and emotionally superficial!" What form of generalization would this be?
A)Sweeping generalization
B)Hasty generalization
C)False dilemma
D)Empirical generalization

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This is a hasty generalization because it draws a broad conclusion about all men based on the limited experience with one individual, without sufficient evidence to support such a universal claim.

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