Quotes About Generalization

It became clear when I got in my car that Persians are only really good for two things. Oil and hummus.

It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind.

They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume are good people." Many Americans expressed outrage at these views, but in fact Trump was just repeating a message that had long been normalized on both sides of the political aisle.25

Men have many faults, women only two: Everything they say, and everything they do.

All of us recognize variation within our own gender, party, ethnicity, or nation, but we are inclined to generalize about people in other categories and lump them all together as them. This habit starts awfully early.

The downside is that stereotypes flatten out differences within the category we are looking at and exaggerate differences between categories.

Boys are stupid. That's all there is to it. Boys are just stupid.

It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually.

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

We are always making assumptions about wholes based on knowing only parts.

Players from Holland and Scandinavia aren't divers, but those from Spain and Italy go down far too easily for my liking.

Actors like Pran Sahab, Jagdeep, Asrani established their identities by doing specialized roles but today acting is more general. Actors used to be image conscious then but now heroines are also playing negatives, it is a notable change.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Nothing is more disagreeable to the hacker than duplication of effort. The first and most important mental habit that people develop when they learn how to write computer programs is to generalize, generalize, generalize. To make their code as modular and flexible as possible, breaking large problems down into small subroutines that can be used over and over again in different contexts.

All women are the same; a man needs to simply find his ideal and marry her to have all the women in the world.

Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals.

The right wing will be identified with the monied class, even when the left often has more money. And the left wing will be identified as the whiners, even though the right at times whines as much or more. You might say that both sides are monied, high human capital whiners, on the whole.

They think Chinese is synecdoche for Asians the way Kleenex is for tissues.

Il problema con i luoghi comuni è che, purtroppo, spesso dicono la verità. In modo grossolano, ma la dicono.

if he had examined only one signal-box and knew nothing about the standardisation-methods of large corporations, his inference would be pitiably weak, for it would be a wide generalisation based on a single instance.

Il apprit rapidement bien des choses, et généralisa beaucoup, de façon souvent erronée. On peut retrouver trace de ses conclusions hâtives dans les pages de l'Ouvrier malhabile. Il s'en tira cependant, à la manière des gens de son espèce, en présentant ses généralisations comme des essais.

We think that once one has discovered that thirty thousand, let us say, Negroes, Chinese or Puerto Ricans or whatever have syphilis or don't, or are unemployed or not, that we've discovered something about the Negroes, Chinese or Puerto Ricans. But in fact, this is not so. In fact, we've discovered nothing very useful because people cannot be handled in that way.

We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.