Sentences with phrase «sweeping generalizations about»

After all, it is unfair to make sweeping generalizations about either gender; I know many women who couldn't care less about design and many men who are very in touch with their feelings.

In one breath you say «it is unfair to make sweeping generalizations about either gender», then you go on to make several such generalizations about women's brains: «a woman's brain is more complicated than a man's» and «a woman's brain also draws stronger connections between pieces of information».

So much misinformation about what we do (or don't do) is floating around out there by people who make sweeping generalizations about us as a group but don't really know what we do.»

The main problem is the opponents of whole life make sweeping generalizations about it, despite the fact that the best whole life insurance companies offer a myriad of policy options, tailored to your specific needs and goals.

Instead of making sweeping generalizations about what you perceive skeptics to be, why not own the fact that contradictory messages reduce public confidence and work to fix that problem?

Sweeping generalizations about scientific disciplines are not immensely productive.

But what «science» exactly allows one to make sweeping generalizations about the state of the entire Earth from millennial hence, and somehow be able to predict the exact year by year future in the present.

To little surprise, but plenty of outrage, CNN's take on the subject was a pretty big over-simplification and make sweeping generalizations about entire mediums of entertainment.

In my opinion, you need to think long and hard before writing sweeping generalizations about women.

Don't brag, don't make sweeping generalizations about anyone (especially not your ex), and don't, don't, don't ever leer or make sexual remarks.

What's clear is that we shouldn't sweep research on sex - based brain differences under the carpet in the interest of political correctness, just because some misguided writers use the field to make sweeping generalizations about men's and women's abilities and personalities.

«Proponents of grain - free diets look for the studies that show the negative effect of excessive refined grains and then apply it to all grains, or they use research on the potential adverse effect of genetically modified wheat on lab animals and then make sweeping generalizations about the adverse effect of all wheat on people,» says Katz.

Parents who co-sleep are often labeled as «hippies,» and certain people are quick to make sweeping generalizations about those parents.

Foods are dynamic, and making sweeping generalizations about them, as if they were like drugs produced in a laboratory, is almost always suspect and needing closer scrutiny.

Sweeping generalizations about religion really do help.

Sweeping generalizations about what doctrinal positions are in or out make little sense.

He makes sweeping generalizations about the core beliefs of «spiritual, not religious» people to support the argument that their flaw is that they don't have core beliefs.

You exude ignorance, as manifest by your broad, sweeping generalizations about all Republican candidates.

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

Because our sample of churches includes some that are socially active, I hesitate to make any sweeping generalizations about all rapidly growing Pentecostal churches.

Why can you make sweeping generalizations about Christians being nutjobs?

On the contrary: The Mind of God is rather a reappraisal of reductionism (its sweeping generalizations about the nonexistence of things like the mind and the soul) and a most refreshing if also sober assessment of the limits of mathematics and the physical theories it supports.

I made no sweeping generalizations about atheists in this thread.

Interesting point, but you make a huge sweeping generalization about indies and the big 5 without any supporting evidence, just an assertion.

To make a sweeping generalization about Robert Grosvenor's choice of materials across his career would be difficult or near impossible.

Not exact matches

One observation I've noticed about this discussion is that atheists are just as capable of making sweeping generalizations and faulty assumptions about Christian belief methodologies as Christians are of atheists.

I do question the education levels of people, but if you are going to make sweeping negative generalizations about gay people, you better be able to defend that position (as I have friends and family that are gay and they are amazing people who don't deserve what is said about them).

-- I think we are in agreement about some of our opinions especially regarding the negative consequences of making sweeping generalizations.

Go back through your threads, even this one, and you will easily find hundreds of insults, jokes about Eagles» fans, threats to beat people up, threats to do certain things to Eagles» fans, and a thousand sweeping generalizations.

Go ahead and look and you will find one person after another making sweeping generalizations and assumptions, about who I am and what I believe, and then not even having the decency to apologize when they are shown to be wrong.

I would like to spend a few blog posts thinking aloud about the case for educational entrepreneurs, but before I make any more sweeping generalizations, it'd be great to hear from you:

Sweeping generalizations are commonly made about how a particular policy will help or hurt one sector or the other, and how if one is helped the other will certainly be hurt.

Of course, it's a bit of a red herring to talk about the «educational software market» with such broad, sweeping generalizations because there are a number of different types of buyers there: schools, teachers, parents, and students to name at least four «consumers» (and that's ignoring, too, the differences between K - 12 and higher education).

You might want to talk to some people who self publish and learn why they do it before making sweeping harsh judgments and generalizations about whether they should exist.

Without resorting to too much dry, technical language about alleles, or to unhelpful, sweeping generalizations, we'll try to explain what makes a white cat's coat white, and what distinguishes these cats from the extremely rare albinos.

I think the comment about our parents & grandparents spending their cognitive surplus watching TV is a condescending BS and a sweeping generalization.

Sweeping generalizations like this, «In my opinion, their analysis is way over simplistic and not at all convincing,» make her about as credible as Sarah Palin.

Lumping the good in with the bad and making sweeping generalizations — about any industry, not just ours — serves no one.

Its mission is to educate and inform the listening audience by constantly challenging the national media's sweeping generalizations and fear - based journalism so its listeners can make informed decisions about «the business of life» in America's Finest City.

More basic studies and secondary analyses are needed... to support the sweeping generalizations that are made about the impact of father absence from a relatively small core of data.»