Sentences with phrase «sweeping generalizations on»

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).

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

If I am going to make a sweeping generalization on a group of people based on a single incident, i.e this article, and I am, then the only thing I took from this piece is that Muslims aren't funny.

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.

And if my becoming defensive proved your point then I have to say that you have a very low threshold of proof which I suppose explains why you are so comfortable making such sweeping generalizations based on no more evidence than your percieved experience.

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 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.

Let's set aside for the moment that the above article is based on a mind - numbingly sweeping generalization (one that invalidates any «conclusions» it may draw).

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 worlOn 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 worlon 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.

This sweeping generalization from Ms. Smith's prehension of her past experience is based on the speculation that the relations that constitute all atomic events can also be understood as prehensions.

because unlike you, I don't make sweeping generalizations based on a stranger's internet comment.

«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.

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.

So, to make a sweeping and totally reductive generalization, the job of an editor is to help you tell a better story, and the job of a copyeditor is to make sure the grammar on every page is correct.

Don't you hate it when people make sweeping generalizations based on their own limited experience.

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.

(This, of course, is a pretty sweeping generalization — debt - to - GDP can vary wildly depending on the country, but this is still a useful comparison.)

Rather than making sweeping generalizations or vague assessments, their feedback is based on observable facts and accurate data.

Eschewing frustrating vagaries, sweeping generalizations, and gender - based assumptions, Puhn's extremely specific guide focuses on simple, rational solutions that primarily revolve around maintaining respect for one's partner.

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».