 These findings support the idea that accepting a generic disposes people—all else being equal—to believe that an arbitrary instance of the kind will have the property, as has long been suggested in the defeasible reasoning literature (e.g., Pelletier and Asher 1997). However, the defeasible reasoning literature has tended to focus on “non-troublesome”, high prevalence generics like “tigers are striped”; it is notable that people show a tendency to draw such inferences even for lower prevalence generics.