He claims much knowledge of particulars and offers very large generalizations. |
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I find that people have difficulty understanding that broad statistical generalizations don't justify leaping to conclusions about individuals. |
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These are generalizations, and all generalizations are false, at least part of the time. |
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Broad generalizations are made to draw conclusions about the historical development of England and Japan. |
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The best I can do is provide what are admittedly broad generalizations based on considerable experience in the field. |
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Our physical science is not a deductive system, but a series of generalizations based in observation of finite modes. |
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But let's leave this increasingly insupportable series of generalizations, and return to the point. |
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Its possible meanings are many, complex, and like all great poetry, irreducible to simple generalizations. |
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But it's wild generalizations like this that point up the irrelevancy of such commercially-driven lists. |
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The Congo is rich in folkloric tradition, and generalizations are difficult in a country with dozens of ethnic groups. |
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But such generalizations are detriments to the impending debate because they obscure what really matters. |
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Refrain from insults, put-downs, and expressions of disgust, and avoid generalizations which are not only stereotypes, but often hurt. |
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Quantitative genetics is the study of the principles underlying the inheritance of polygenic traits, and a few generalizations can be made. |
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To separate the facts and distill the generalizations biometeorologists must make a searching self-appraisal. |
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I'm an advocate of proposing solutions rather than offering grand generalizations. |
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Remember that, for Mill, all mathematical knowledge is based on inductive generalizations from experience. |
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Obviously, this season is still proving itself, so I can't make any sweeping generalizations. |
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The pearly nautilus is an exception to most generalizations about cephalopods. |
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I agree that media coverage of the issue too often has been laden with generalizations, hyperbole and sensational images. |
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It's really important to get beyond those completely unfounded generalizations. |
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Would she feel okay about making such sweeping generalizations if she were in any other line of work? |
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This fellow makes some valid points, but they're lost among the sweeping generalizations. |
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It just amazed him how people form such absurd generalizations out of specific instances. |
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Special attention is given to three generalizations regarding root suppletion in the comparative degree of adjectives. |
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It is difficult to make neat generalizations about this wide-ranging and ambitious volume. |
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The patterns I have been discussing in this section are of course generalizations, not iron laws. |
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Much of the introductory chapter consists of broad generalizations about Indians, culture areas, reservations, and allotment. |
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Conversely, cost estimators are based on averages or generalizations that do not take into account the individual management abilities of a farm. |
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Leiter makes sweeping and imprecise generalizations that turn out to be arrant nonsense, however you interpret them. |
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Pipes's book is shot through with essentialism and questionable generalizations. |
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Because these data are not drawn from a random sample, generalizations are based on intuitive plausibility rather than statistical inference. |
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With only five case studies carried out, there is a real limit to generalizations drawn from the studies. |
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Given the limited sample size, the audit did not permit us to draw broad generalizations. |
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However, it is difficult to draw too many generalizations from the major studies. |
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For this reason, as friar preachers we should not fall into facile generalizations and the systematic rejection of the other. |
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It is more a case of generalizations and assumptions which are not backed up by scientific fact whatsoever. |
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The thing about broad generalizations made about a group of people is that if they are held up to scrutiny they are, more often than not, proved false at their very core. |
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Ronald Reagan could get away with sunny generalizations about supply-side economics because in 1980, it was just a theory. |
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They provide insightful empirical generalizations, but little theory. |
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To put it more technically, this means avoiding statistical generalizations about dance that might contribute to stereotypes and misunderstandings. |
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Textbooks should thus avoid untrue generalizations and truthful but unflattering generalizations. |
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Participation is far too diverse a concept to permit easy generalizations. |
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Ethnographies that highlight the historicity, lack of typicality, and internal tensions make generalizations across or among divergent cases quite difficult. |
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But it does not, so I will press on with the sweeping generalizations. |
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This is, of course, in addition to his unfortunate tendency to make ridiculously broad generalizations and radically oversimplify complex social and moral issues. |
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Among the broad generalizations he favors, he says that Dalits aspire to marry upper-caste Brahmins to step up the ladder. |
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There are these misconceptions and generalizations that don't fit this person who is full of spirit and down-to-earthiness. |
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So I beg to differ with you in terms of making generalizations about pesticides. |
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Therefore it is not possible to make generalizations about GIS take-up based only on these findings. |
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It is very dangerous to make generalizations about over all unemployment rates in a region based solely on census rates. |
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While much of the report deals in generalizations, the study's authors occasionally zero in on particular situations with a sharp eye for the telling detail. |
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Geographic generalizations can be made using inductive reasoning or deductive reasoning. |
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By contrast, he held that empirical generalizations are contingent truths. |
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Given the diversity of the retail sector, the survey results should be interpreted as directional and not as generalizations. |
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Della has a beautiful voice and great rapid-fire elocution, but the piece would be well served by tighter direction and fewer generalizations about gender in the comedic bits. |
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In her piece she generally laments culturally perpetuated generalizations. |
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The issue of biofuels must be studied more carefully before sweeping generalizations could be made about their impact on food security. |
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Hasty generalizations and superficial analyses should, therefore, be distrusted. |
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Albert seems to think this package explains the existence of all counterfactual-supporting generalizations, narrowly thermodynamic or not. |
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Owing to the limited number of countries reporting, generalizations about overall crime trends may not be accurate. |
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Admittedly, I am an historian, so that makes me extremely unsympathetic to the sorts of loose and ahistorical generalizations to which sociologists are greatly inclined. |
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Quite common in textbooks are ethnic stereotypes, that is, oversimplified and biased generalizations of characteristics attributed to an ethnic group. |
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Among these are generalizations in metalogic, such as that all instances of the deMorgan laws are true. |
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The Aristotelian logic of the simple syllogism starts from the proposition that 'A' is equal to 'A.' This postulate is accepted as an axiom for a multitude of practical human actions and elementary generalizations. |
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This theoretical language consists of terms invented in order to better organize, generalize, and make connections among the assertions and generalizations made in the observation language. |
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We must in all cases avoid baseless generalizations. |
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With all its wishy-washy platitudes and sweeping generalizations, there was a general theme wafting odorously from the ill-conceived ballot. |
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Can a science rest on false generalizations? |
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Perhaps detailed examination of several cases would enable us to make some generalizations about how wide spread the possibilities for the amplification of quantum effects are. |
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Some authors leave little room for choice and contingency, while others frame their generalizations as loose trends that constrain rather than determine the course of events. |
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And IF he survives this shooting, THEN he will be shot again.' Twentieth century logicians were impressed by generalizations such as 'All immortals live forever' that do not commit to the existence of the subject items. |
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Although no two people experience illness in the same way, some generalizations can be made about how an illness begins to weaken the body when a person is nearing death. |
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In addition, it seemed necessary to examine the effects of globalization on particular human rights on a case-by-case basis without making generalizations. |
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It should, however, be interpreted with caution because the vast majority of research is based on case-studies, which makes generalizations difficult. |
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Identify your own learned generalizations, stereotypes and filters. |
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Although to date no good methods for capturing the results of democracy promotion activities have been invented, we can make a few generalizations about the dynamics of democratic development. |
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For example, the results of these studies only apply to specific locations and specific management practices, although some generalizations may be justified. |
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Because our individual experiences are varied and personal, we may find ourselves more or less related to the generalizations that will be made here about our collective experiences. |
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The importance of assessing each individual case on its own terms cannot be emphasized enough, especially given the need to overcome prejudicial generalizations about conditions such as epilepsy. |
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His argument centered on broad generalizations and condescending tones appealing to the lowest common denominators in our society. |
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However, he relies heavily on generalizations that occasionally cross the line into oversimplifications. |
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These qualitative generalizations are based on evidence collected and may not be representative of all individuals and organizations within each category. |
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I am not here making generalizations or casting aspersions, but it would appear that, in fact, there were political reasons for the decision that was made back then and we are paying the price today. |
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One can reduce the disconfirmations of economic generalizations by specifying a margin of error. |
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The rather loose-handed ways in which Wilson presented his history and the generalizations he dared to make are also visible in later years. |
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The chemistry of the myrmicine genus Solenopsis is so aberrant that it reduces generalizations about ant venoms to the absurd. |
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But there is a wide difference between the isolated permutations described by his predecessors and his own comprehensive generalizations. |
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The major point behind this approach is that many such generalizations are hard to state with either of the other approaches. |
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When learning about people and their circumstances, some tend to form generalizations surrounding the whats and wherefores of the people. |
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It's easy for people to throw around generalizations. |
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Like all generalizations, those of the televised news skim over the ambiguities, paradoxes, and loose ends that make real life so hard to view with certainty. |
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Deductive reasoning requires students to identify relevant questions, collect and assess evidence, and decide whether the generalizations are appropriate by testing them against the real world. |
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A universal instrument on bioethics can impress upon the scientific community the eugenic implications of generalizations that are unfounded or premature. |
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For me, the occasionally truistic nature of some essays' generalizations corresponds to somewhat delimited critical and theoretical frames of reference. |
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The combination of both these methodologies aid in the formulization of empirical generalizations, which in turn support the role of theory building in Africana Studies. |
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A large survey of history does not belie these generalizations, and the history of the period since Rousseau wrote lends them a melancholy verisimilitude. |
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His belief that law, properly speaking, was a set of generalizations from what judges had done in similar cases, determined his view of the Constitution of the United States. |
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Although harmonic mappings are natural generalizations of conformal mappings, they were studied originally because of their natural role in parametrizing minimal surfaces. |
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Important generalizations for linear decision boundaries are shown to be encoded within a dual statistical eigenlocus of principal eigenaxis components. |
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This and other poems support the generalizations in Blandiana's manifesto in the afterword, where she says that striving for perfection is inevitable but inevitably doomed. |
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