Maybe modern conditions are so different that you can't generalize from the past. From Wordnik.com. [What, Me Worry?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
When you generalize from a random sample to a population, your inferences are highly likely to be correct. From Wordnik.com. [Sampling Bias on a Plane, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Parents who generalize from the apparent contentedness of their own children are indulging a dangerous fallacy. From Wordnik.com. [The Apocalypse of Adolescence] Reference
The capacity to generalize from the particular to the general and to use analogy is a part of this redescription process. From Wordnik.com. [Douglass C. North - Prize Lecture] Reference
I think it’s dangerous to generalize from a test to a concept. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A View from an Incoming Harvard 1L] Reference
The latter have little power to compare and generalize, that is, to think. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart] Reference
It’s very intellectually lazy to take one example from human history and generalize is to all similar situations. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964] Reference
And you can’t generalize from the example of New York because it has a shitload of people crammed into an … um … archipelago?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Another Reason for Congestion Pricing] Reference
QUESTION: Taking off on your better balance of the four risks, let's kind of generalize this from the other question. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2002] Reference
Can you generalize from a few women?. From Wordnik.com. [‘Hooking Up’ Replaces Dating | Impact Lab] Reference
Are you seeing these anecdotes kind of generalize around a certain type of specialty?. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
Schwartz wanted to find a way to "generalize" the distribution advantages given to Google and Microsoft. From Wordnik.com. [O'Reilly News] Reference
"generalize" about why the response had been slow because different donors were influenced by different factors. From Wordnik.com. [Spero News] Reference
"generalize," that is, to take up certain general attitudes which will answer for a great many details of experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Mind] Reference
I think it’s a little bit unfair to kind of generalize that the AHA, number one, stands for a low-fat diet; that’s no longer the case. From Wordnik.com. [More on Tierney, Taubes and saturated fat | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
Can we generalize anything from this limited example?. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
But it is important not to generalize from these examples. From Wordnik.com. [CSR Doesn't Pay] Reference
"You generalize widely after an acquaintance of four days.". From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
And they caution that one can't generalize too much from the new study. From Wordnik.com. [SMOKING GRASS] Reference
This went well, so I attempted to generalize it to the rest of my life. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Killingsworth: Combatting Boredom] Reference
I am beginning to generalize -- the very thing I was resolute to avoid. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
So we might generalize and say that it is well to keep open lawn spaces. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
But you can't generalize those exceptions as a rule of what we are doing. From Wordnik.com. [Sex, Lies And Celebrities] Reference
It's dangerous to generalize about any group as massive as everyone 45 to 65. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Mature Worker' Glut] Reference
Francisco, and then generalize about the rest of the country and its population. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
It is when works of art are profoundly individual that we generalize their meaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
We must not generalize too much as to the merit or lack of merit of species-hybrids. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference
Thus we may generalize and say that whatever favors clear, still, dry air favors frost. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
It may be hard to generalize, but tell us what different demographic groups respond to. From Wordnik.com. [Melody Makers] Reference
Or will both sides generalize about the worst of the other and allow militarists to win?. From Wordnik.com. [Kevin Zeese: Can Americans Who Oppose War and Empire Work Together?] Reference
In technical terms the ability that is needed is the ability to generalize one's experiences. From Wordnik.com. [Wage Earning and Education] Reference
Let not the ephemeron that lights on a baby's hand generalize too rashly upon the non-growing of organisms!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
It consists of basically anyone out there who calls themselves a Tea Partier, and it's pretty hard to generalize. From Wordnik.com. [Who Is The Tea Party? There's No Short Answer] Reference
It is when the realistic writer turns philosopher and begins to generalize that we must be on our guard against him. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
At times I do generalize on the attitudes of both black and white servicemen and the black and white communities at large as well. From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
I do not mean that the essayist may not generalize, but his generalizations should be limited to the scope of his experience of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Rembrandt, on the contrary, did not generalize enough; therefore, many portraits were left on his hands, as it is said they were left on. From Wordnik.com. [Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.] Reference
The reporter should never generalize or present his statements hazily and uncertainly -- a fact is a fact and must be presented as such. From Wordnik.com. [Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing] Reference
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