John Woods has proposed that a logical fallacy, as traditionally understood, is a BERHAUI: a Bad Error of Reasoning that for Humans is Attractive, Universal and Incorrigible. We should be especially vigilant about minimizing the harm that such errors of reasoning cause. A plausible candidate for a BERHAUI is stereotyping, the application to an individual person of a stereotype: a supposedly invariant link from being a person of a specified age range, sex, sexual orientation, marital or blood relationship, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, social class, disability status, occupation, or educational specialization to having some ongoing behavioral or mental characteristic (or vice versa), when in fact the link is not invariant but holds only sometimes. Stereotyping is a bad error of reasoning that is attractive to humans, but it is widespread and hard to correct rather than being universal and always incorrigible. It is close enough to a BERHAUI that general education in post-secondary educational institutions should pay attention to it.
