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jump·ing to con·clu·sions

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  1. Jumping to conclusions

    Jumping to conclusions (officially the jumping conclusion bias, often abbreviated as JTC, and also referred to as the inference-observation confusion) is a psychological term referring to a communication obstacle where one "judge[s] or decide[s] something without having all the facts; to reach unwarranted conclusions". In other words, "when I fail to distinguish between what I observed first hand from what I have only inferred or assumed". Because it involves making decisions without having enough information to be sure that one is right, this can give rise to poor or rash decisions that often cause more harm to something than good.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of jumping to conclusions in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of jumping to conclusions in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of jumping to conclusions in a Sentence

  1. Author Unknown:

    Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

  2. Justin Honore:

    There was a lot of racial tension around the Ferguson issue. A lot of the student body are from the St. Louis, Ferguson area, when a lot of that was going down, they felt very hurt and judged that people were jumping to conclusions about their community, about who they were.

  3. Nathaniel Gleicher:

    We have been actively looking and we haven't yet seen foreign interference or domestic coordinated inauthentic behavior targeting these protests, we want to caution people against jumping to conclusions without clear evidence of foreign interference.

  4. Joy Wright:

    I think there are too many jumping to conclusions, we really don't know what is going on. I know I have never met this town manager, I have never had any problems with the police, so I really don't know what dynamic could have led to these types of decisions.

  5. Mary Claire Caine:

    I want them to know they owe me and every other female service member who's fighting now and who's fought in the past, an apology for jumping to conclusions.

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