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Dr Evan Harris, the former Liberal Democrat MP, said: "The reason that it was a wrong comment was that it made a generalisation.

Replies: You cannot make a generalization one way or the other.

This is because the dog has made a generalization.

It is difficult to make a generalization about economic comparisons because thus far living machine systems have only been built for single commercial buildings.

"A threat to external validity is an explanation of how you might be wrong in making a generalization."

"No, but if I had to make a generalization, prosecutors attach more weight to them than defense lawyers do.

It seems, you know, because Freud didn't actually analyze just to make a generalization about things he knew about some of the people.

They may be introduced by ti (the common article) if the speaker is making a generalization or wants to refer to a concept.

Inductive reasoning involves drawing inferences from observations in order to make a generalization.

There are too many variables to make a generalization about whether Ethernet or USB is the better way to connect your home computer.

And I'm making a generalization about the art house audience that is unfortunately true, which is that it is mostly middle-, upper-middle-class white."

This article in particular stresses the need to further explore the natures of the human environment, and not make a generalization when considering possible risks (Rappaport,1996, 65).

Again, you are making a generalization and insinuating that Mormons cannot be moderate and that Mormons don't have a decent philosophy.

Richard Barrans Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Wyoming This is very difficult to make a generalization.

In addition to relating the disturbing slides to themselves, the highly emotional people tended to focus their attention on the worst part of the slide and to make a generalization about it, such as thinking about how much evil there is in the world.

Since the two-round system requires more information from each voter than a single ordinal ballot provides, one can't fit the criteria that are formulated expressly for voters with ordinal preferences without making a generalization as to how the voters will behave.