Faulty generalization

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Faulty generalization

Quality:

Faulty generalization - process of reaching a conclusion about all or many instances of a phenomenon, on the basis of one or a few instances of that phenomenon. Article “Faulty generalization” in English Wikipedia has 28.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Faulty generalization”, its content was written by 208 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 273 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 255 times in English Wikipedia and cited 801 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #292 in May 2003
  • Global: #1634 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #56062 in January 2022
  • Global: #109422 in January 2022

There are 12 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Malay (ms)
Generalisasi salah
37.4788
2Indonesian (id)
Overgeneralitas
36.1306
3Bulgarian (bg)
Грешна генерализация
32.4652
4Ukrainian (uk)
Хибне узагальнення
31.1858
5English (en)
Faulty generalization
28.6773
6Catalan (ca)
Generalització (fal·làcia)
20.8774
7Arabic (ar)
تعميم خاطئ
15.5757
8Vietnamese (vi)
Ngụy biện khái quát hóa có khiếm khuyết
14.3778
9French (fr)
Généralisation abusive
12.2621
10Chinese (zh)
草率歸納
8.9654
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Faulty generalization" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Faulty generalization
2 005 908
2Chinese (zh)
草率歸納
52 749
3French (fr)
Généralisation abusive
31 357
4Hebrew (he)
כשלי היקש
8 856
5Romanian (ro)
Generalizare defectuoasă
5 848
6Arabic (ar)
تعميم خاطئ
5 459
7Vietnamese (vi)
Ngụy biện khái quát hóa có khiếm khuyết
4 789
8Indonesian (id)
Overgeneralitas
2 707
9Malay (ms)
Generalisasi salah
1 897
10Ukrainian (uk)
Хибне узагальнення
1 753
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Faulty generalization" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Faulty generalization
5 680
2French (fr)
Généralisation abusive
279
3Chinese (zh)
草率歸納
187
4Indonesian (id)
Overgeneralitas
55
5Ukrainian (uk)
Хибне узагальнення
52
6Malay (ms)
Generalisasi salah
51
7Vietnamese (vi)
Ngụy biện khái quát hóa có khiếm khuyết
49
8Arabic (ar)
تعميم خاطئ
47
9Hebrew (he)
כשלי היקש
27
10Romanian (ro)
Generalizare defectuoasă
23
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Faulty generalization" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Faulty generalization
208
2French (fr)
Généralisation abusive
15
3Chinese (zh)
草率歸納
11
4Hebrew (he)
כשלי היקש
8
5Indonesian (id)
Overgeneralitas
7
6Romanian (ro)
Generalizare defectuoasă
5
7Catalan (ca)
Generalització (fal·làcia)
4
8Vietnamese (vi)
Ngụy biện khái quát hóa có khiếm khuyết
4
9Arabic (ar)
تعميم خاطئ
3
10Bulgarian (bg)
Грешна генерализация
3
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Faulty generalization" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Indonesian (id)
Overgeneralitas
1
2Arabic (ar)
تعميم خاطئ
0
3Bulgarian (bg)
Грешна генерализация
0
4Catalan (ca)
Generalització (fal·làcia)
0
5English (en)
Faulty generalization
0
6French (fr)
Généralisation abusive
0
7Hebrew (he)
כשלי היקש
0
8Malay (ms)
Generalisasi salah
0
9Romanian (ro)
Generalizare defectuoasă
0
10Ukrainian (uk)
Хибне узагальнення
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Faulty generalization" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Faulty generalization
255
2Chinese (zh)
草率歸納
246
3Ukrainian (uk)
Хибне узагальнення
131
4Arabic (ar)
تعميم خاطئ
126
5Hebrew (he)
כשלי היקש
21
6French (fr)
Généralisation abusive
11
7Vietnamese (vi)
Ngụy biện khái quát hóa có khiếm khuyết
6
8Romanian (ro)
Generalizare defectuoasă
3
9Bulgarian (bg)
Грешна генерализация
1
10Catalan (ca)
Generalització (fal·làcia)
1
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تعميم خاطئ
bgBulgarian
Грешна генерализация
caCatalan
Generalització (fal·làcia)
enEnglish
Faulty generalization
frFrench
Généralisation abusive
heHebrew
כשלי היקש
idIndonesian
Overgeneralitas
msMalay
Generalisasi salah
roRomanian
Generalizare defectuoasă
ukUkrainian
Хибне узагальнення
viVietnamese
Ngụy biện khái quát hóa có khiếm khuyết
zhChinese
草率歸納

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#56062
01.2022
Global:
#109422
01.2022

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#292
05.2003
Global:
#1634
05.2003

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Faulty generalization from Wikipedia articles about List of fallacies, Law of small numbers, Fallacy of composition, Gamblers fallacy and Stereotype. Whereas reading the article about Faulty generalization people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Informal fallacy, Jumping to conclusions, A dicto simpliciter, Slothful induction and Proof by example.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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