![]() Parents who generalize from the apparent contentedness of their own children are indulging a dangerous fallacy. Sampling Bias on a Plane, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009 When you generalize from a random sample to a population, your inferences are highly likely to be correct. What, Me Worry?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009 Maybe modern conditions are so different that you can't generalize from the past. Professor STEVE KOZLOWSKI (Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Michigan State University): And it's really very, very difficult to generalize from the small set of tasks that were examined in these studies, using college students, ad hoc teams, very short periods of measurement.Ĭollaboration Beats Smarts In Group Problem Solving 2010 verb cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public bring into general or common use.verb draw from specific cases for more general cases.verb become systemic and spread throughout the body.verb To spread throughout the body and become systemic.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.verb To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.verb To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.intransitive verb To form into a genus to view objects in their relations to a genus or class to take general or comprehensive views.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.transitive verb To speak in generalities to talk in abstract terms.transitive verb To derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.transitive verb To apply to other genera or classes to use with a more extensive application to extend so as to include all special cases to make universal in application, as a formula or rule.transitive verb To bring under a genus or under genera to view in relation to a genus or to genera.To reason inductively, from particular cases to general rules comprehending those cases.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. ![]() To recognize that two or more objects have a common character to form a general notion.In mathematics, to modify, as a proposition, so as to obtain a wider proposition from which the former can be immediately deduced.To infer inductively, as a general rule from a particular case or set of facts.To render general make more general bring under a general description or notion treat or apply generically.In painting, to render large and typical characteristics rather than details.intransitive verb Medicine To spread through the body.intransitive verb To deal in generalities speak or write vaguely.intransitive verb To form general notions or conclusions.intransitive verb To form a concept inductively.intransitive verb To make generally or universally applicable.intransitive verb To draw inferences or a general conclusion from.intransitive verb To infer from many particulars.intransitive verb To render indefinite or unspecific.intransitive verb To reduce to a general form, class, or law.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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