• Hasty generalizations often result from small and biased personal samples.
• Jumping to conclusions.
• Misattribution of a cause to the messenger.
• The violent protests in Afghanistan over the desecration of the Qur'an were blamed on the Newsweek story and not those who performed the act itself.
• Donald Rumsfeld expressed more anger at the fact that there were cameras in Abu Ghraib prison than the fact that the Geneva Convention was being violated by the acts that were captured on those cameras.