Nadir fallacy

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The nadir fallacy is an informal fallacy in which people judge a group by its least successful members. Many feminists commit a nadir fallacy when they claim that men are violent as a result of a small number of men being violent.

The nadir fallacy is actually a form of observer bias.

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