People who jump to conclusions show other kinds of thinking errors
The article opens with a couple of examples of people allegedly not doing research:<p>1. Most people make two trips or fewer to a dealership before buying a car<p>2. when picking a doctor, many individuals use recommendations from friends and family rather than consulting other health care professionals or “formal sources” such as employers, articles or Web sites<p>And, of course, the last person I would look to for objective advice on buying a car is a car salesman!  Surely people have a good idea what they are going to buy, what they are prepared to spend and how they are expecting to finance it etc before going to a dealership for the car?<p>Ditto too the doctor; if you are searching for a doctor, do you go and cold call other doctors for an opinion?  Or read the blurb on a website provided by or sponsored by the employer?  Its much more straightforward to ask people you know which doctors they recommend.<p>Is the subtext of the starting examples meant to be saying that people should defer to car salesman and should ask doctors rather than friends and family to recommend other doctors?