Sentences with phrase «make broad generalizations»

Lenders will hasten to make broad generalizations because everyone's employment circumstances are so unique.

It often comes from essentially pooling together data from a series of small studies, none of which on their own might have had the statistical power to make broad generalizations from their findings.

However, you can make broad generalizations about the labels, and their general philosophy.

Just as toddlers don't all learn to walk at the same time, kids don't give up the need for naps at the same time — so it's impossible to make broad generalizations about nap needs based on age.

It's always difficult to make broad generalizations based on a limited sample size, but I wanted to determine how often our ticket percentages matched up with our money percentages during the 2016 - 17 college basketball season.

In attempting to attribute atrocities of past regimes to atheism, posters like the one below will make broad generalizations, that, in order to be true, would require that one know of the religious / non-religious thinking involved for the populations that had to endure those past regimes.

Be careful not to make broad generalizations you can not give evidence to the contrary of.

Now I will be the first to admit I am going to make a broad generalization here.

Based on an analysis of human experience, he makes broad generalizations about all other experiences in the world.

'' It is the spread that provides the plethora of clinical problems that arise, just as no two individuals are exactly the same way; although, we can make some broad generalization from clinical experience».

The experts cautioned about making broad generalizations — «meat is bad» or «dairy is bad» — but noted that only a minority of different populations adhere to a healthy dietary pattern, defined as one high in vegetables and fruits that can include lean meats and dairy even in modest amounts.

«But that same aunt is just overly simplistic,» Santelises explains, «and makes these broad generalizations.»

Very good point about critical thinking... I guess I should be careful making broad generalizations =) I definitely learned useful skills somewhere among all that reading and cramming.

Furthermore one can go and make a broad generalization such as since real estate no longer requires the same quantity of construction material other industries sensitive to the price of those commodities should technically have a lower cost of doing business.

Not exact matches

Now, when people make broad empirical generalizations, especially about other people, and do so without considering any actual empirical evidence, they usually tell us more about themselves than about the people they are putatively describing.

You need to give examples if you are going to make such a broad generalization.

Many writers insist on the need for every discipline and discourse to have an explicitly theological framework; many make broad claims, confident generalizations covering long periods of history and whole disciplines, and fairly summary dismissals of periods and categories of thinkers with whom they differ.

Your third mistake is that you make broad sweeping generalizations about a topic you know zip about.

Listen, me, I blame me for making broad sweeping generalizations that one side is too pious, the other two bigoted.

All I have seen you do is make broad sweeping generalizations on what YOU think atheists are...

The variation for yard trimmings makes it hard for the Environmental Protection Agency model to cast a broad generalization of the material's methane production, and thus the overall environmental cost and benefit of composting verses landfilling, Brown said.

The paring down of wheat's genetic diversity over generations is not easy to rebuild, but Mark Sorrells, another professor of plant breeding at Cornell, is optimistic: «It is possible to make [these] kind of broad generalizations... but it is easy to cite examples in the other direction,» he said, mentioning the durum wheat used for pasta.

These calculators tend to make broad, sweeping generalizations on activity level, and fail to take into account the nearly infinite variables introduced over the course of a full day (e.g. how far away one parks from the store, and how many cups of coffee consumed which controls how many hours an individual spent at her desk twitching her leg, these and more can all blow calorie calculations out the window).

I will have you know, since you're so inclined to make such broad and untrue generalizations, that I do, in fact, make serious money writing.

But I also think a pricing survey of the Top - 50,000 indie books might surprise the folks making the broad - brush generalization about indie books being cheap.

Concerns about a breed are often based on a broad generalization made through the observation of very few specimens of the breed.

I think it is wrong to make such broad generalizations.

It seemed a recklessly broad generalization to make.

Different species have different requirements, but some broad generalizations can be made.

One way to minimize this is to use a Maximum Entropy Prior (really only applicable to discrete distributions) or a minimally informative prior (a generalization where you make the Prior as broad as possible subject to constraints like known symmetries).

Daniel - Long, overly broad generalizations criticizing a group only make the writer of the comment appear clueless.

Sadly, some employers make broad - based generalizations regarding employment gaps and may use that to screen out candidates.

Emphasizes the importance of providing individualized narratives for incarcerated parents and their families so that broad generalizations are not made about the population.