Quotes About Generalization

When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they're just never accurate.

For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.

The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse.

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.

language acquisition is not a step-by-step process of generalization, association, and abstraction, going from linguistic data to the grammar, and that the subtlety of our understanding transcends by far what is presented in experience.

There is no danger in scientists specializing. The actual danger is that the specialists are generalizing.

It's amazing how people can take just one small part of a person and draw massive conclusions.

Theory, as Gayatri Spivak writes, is at best provisional generalization: I am tracking patterns to enable my readers to see them elsewhere or to not see them, and to invent other explanations. I am interested in lines of continuity and in the ellipsis, with its double meaning of what goes without saying and what has not yet been thought.

My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the '70s they blamed Dobermans, in the '80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the '90s they blamed the Rottweiler. Now they blame the Pit Bull.

It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.

Once a label (professor, housewife, chair, butterfly, automobile, laxative) has been applied, people are less likely to notice the actual qualities or attributes of what is being labeled.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

Talk to women who've ever dated an Arab man. The results are not good.

If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.

All men are liars. All women are liars, too.

In mainstream media, everything gets turned into a stereotype of ourselves.

The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always a partial truth.

Nothing kills humor like a general and boring truth.

And concepts are crucial to cognition: cognitive scientists point out that they help us to categorize, learn, remember, infer, explain, problem-solve, generalize, analogize. Correspondingly, the lack of appropriate concepts can hinder learning, interfere with memory, block inferences, obstruct explanation, and perpetuate problems.

Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail.

When representation of the LBGT community was much more scarce in the media, I think there was some kind of pressure to encapsulate an entire community in a single character - this can often be a fast track to generalization and stereotypes.

I guess I can be stereotypical and say that Asians are very cheap.