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However, I would be cautious about generalizing from a small measurement to thewhole.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010

I know that labeling and generalizing is easier than objectivity, but it's just lazy.

Laura Bush speaks out on Burma 2009

When Reagan talked about a "welfare queen," he was excoriated by the Left for generalizing from the specific.

"As Corey Stewart Succeeds, the Latino Community Bleeds" 2008

Januszcsak can only render this judgment by generalizing from the paintings he's looking at, and his assertions that they reveal Rubens to be a sadomasochist do not depend upon their being either conscious or unconscious acts.

The State of Criticism 2008

It probably bears saying right off the bat that I would be more than a little wary about generalizing from the behavior of 120 U.C. Davis students to some sweeping human tendency.

Pleistocene Redistribution 2007

Running hastily through a country, observing and understanding by halves, and generalizing from a remarkably limited number of ill-appreciated facts, your ambitious traveler is the least trustworthy person in the world for the manners and customs of the people.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

Locke is generalizing from the English constitution; and its sense of compromise is implicit in his remarks.

Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Harold Joseph Laski 1921

Aren't we always striving from one concrete to another, and isn't what we call generalizing merely a process of finding our way? "

Questionable Shapes William Dean Howells 1878

It’s all there — the claim of an “about face” based on no evidence at all, the generalizing from a limited example based upon one person’s statement to a claim about what all “liberals” believe, the smug assumption about others’ lack of moral considerations.

Matthew Yglesias » Cornyn Holds Up Holder, Demands Immunity From Prosecution For Torturers 2009

The problem with such criticism, as far as I’m concerned, is that generalizing from the experiences of nine female Yahoo! users in their thirties is not necessarily representative of the web at large, nor are the conditions favorable to such research.

Independent study on OpenID awareness using Mechanical Turk | FactoryCity 2008