Quotes About Generalization

Specific Teaching can be thought about as the cake; Non-specific Teaching is the icing.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often.

Without knowing the full extent of the past, we have no idea whether the events we can see are typical of larger patterns or simply contingent products of particular eras, societies, or conjunctures. A statistician might say that the sample from which historians generalize is seriously skewed for the simple reason that we have no idea how or by how much it is skewed! If that is true, it makes all the larger generalizations of historians suspect.

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of them. People who generalize are mentally ill.

Children begin with detail, and learn up to the general; they begin with the contiguous, and gradually comprehend the universal. The boy seemed to have begun with the generals of life, and never to have concerned himself with the particulars. To him the houses, the willows, the obscure fields beyond, were apparently regarded not as brick residences, pollards, meadows; but as human dwellings in the abstract, vegetation, and the wide dark world.

you cannot objectify the subjective; you cannot generalize the specific.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.

Shah Rukh Khan started his career with television, and now he is a superstar. You can't generalise and say that TV actors can't make it to films.

There are designations, like "economist," "prostitute," or "consultant," for which additional characterization doesn't add information.

One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans. All you need is one single (and, I am told, quite ugly) black bird.*

How can we logically go from specific instances to reach general conclusions? How do we know what we know? How do we know that what we have observed from given objects and events suffices to enable us to figure out their other properties? There

An observation that people who live permanently in an adoptive country tend to progressively generalize the bad and particularize the good, that is, attribute the bad traits in people they encounter to the national trait of the natives, and the good things to the individual. This holds equally well for French people living in the U.S. as it does for Americans living in France.

One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans.

how we tend to generalize from what we see.

By generalization, I started to label a rare event as any behavior where the adage "beware of calm waters" can hold. Popular wisdom often warns of the old neighbor who appears to remain courtly and reserved, the model of an excellent citizen, until you see his picture in the national paper as a deranged killer who went on a rampage.

Pero hay otros problemas que surgen de nuestra ceguera ante el Cisne Negro: a) Nos centramos en segmentos preseleccionados de lo visto, y a partir de ahí generalizamos en lo no visto: el error de la confirmación.

Categorizing always produces reduction in true complexity.

modernity likes the abstract over the particular;

Logic suggests that we should be less confident about generalizing our results to the entire adult population from a sample of 25 than from a sample of 3,000.