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".
Is it correct to say jump into conclusions?
If you say that someone jumps to a conclusion, you are critical of them because they decide too quickly that something is true, when they do not know all the facts. Forgive me. I shouldn't be jumping to conclusions.
How do you use jump to conclusion in a sentence?
Examples of 'jump to conclusions' in a sentence jump to conclusions
- I was so ready to jump to conclusions, she thought sadly. Richard Francis PROSPECT HILL (2003.
- We mustn't jump to conclusions, Leo had kept on saying. Stewart, Michael GRACE (2003)
- "The signals were from Lebanon, and the Druze...
