Sentences with phrase «sweeping generalizations in»

I'm not sure one can «lose their shirt» when collecting thousands of dollars of free travel... Clearly you're right that it's hard to make sweeping generalizations in this, or any, regard in life.

And an overwhelming amount of broad sweeping generalizations in the form of opinions here are often passed off to look like «facts»..

Obviously not all studies are unbiased, but you seems to be making a sweeping generalization in stating that no study has been unbiased.

Not exact matches

I'm going to get out the broom here and make a sweeping generalization: Working women have more going on in their lives, generally, than working men do.

It is, in effect, making a sweeping generalization of diverse group of mono - theistic perspectives, rather than an evaluation of a particular text.

I made no sweeping generalizations about atheists in this thread.

I can't find any respect for atheists — I hate to make sweeping generalizations but based on the comments in this blog, I would call them them most hateful, self - centered & self - absorbed people I have ever encountered.

Althought i can say that some (so called) Christians may have had a hand in the Third Reich (I can't say there weren't because I haven't studied it), you can not make a sweeping generalization by sy equating a few politically and nationally charged fanatics who were most likely on the fringe of «The Church», it part of it all, with the Christians were resisted against, or fell victim to, the Holocaust.

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

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

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

You make sweeping generalizations using stereotypes in a bigoted way and win the hypocrite of the day award.

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.

But saying «school lunch in and of itself promotes obesity» is an overstated sweeping generalization.

As evidence for that sweeping generalization, I cite a recent paper by Trisha Greenhalgh (a physician and health care professor) and collaborators, titled «Evidence - based medicine: a movement in crisis?»

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.

These sweeping generalizations are very effective in removing all blame from the school system and preventing education reform efforts that could ensure that EVERY child receives the same quality of schools and teachers that wealthy students enjoy.

If you lump extremely nice, overly polite people in with your sweeping negative generalization, you risk being dissed.

But apparently it's perfectly OK for * you * to make such sweeping generalizations as: «Seems to me she's going in knowing that most of the authors can't possibly get a damn thing out of this because they will never make the crucial sales figure to ping the publishers» radar.

Of those things (and please note that these are sweeping generalizations and do not apply to all Russian speakers in Israel), what is most relevant to this book is their politics.

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

You're doing this absurd thing where you're somehow starting from the fact that self - publication is open to everybody, and so a lot of crap gets through the lack of gatekeepers, and ending up in this mysterious land of illogic and sweeping generalization where therefore all self - published work is crap.

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.

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.

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.

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».

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.