What is the technical term for when people thinks the actions of the few represent the many.
Like when people thinks everyone in a specific group behaves a certain way cause of how a few people in the group behave, including non stereotypical behaviours. I thought it was "generalisation" but I couldn't find any articles using that term.
Best Answer
The scientific term for this is "the fallacy of composition":
From The University of Tennessee at Martin:
So when one thinks actions of a subset of a group represent the behavior of the whole group, they are committing the fallacy of composition.