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The problem with women is that they are always making generalisations about everything!

While I take your point at the second part even that is something of a generalisation.

The division into these two groups is a generalisation however.

Another generalisation is to actions of a group which are not free.

It's like white people make these generalisations about our culture, without really understanding it.

But even this generalisation only holds good for the higher groups.

There are always exceptions to both these generalisations, of course!

The author would have done better here if he had avoided the generalisations.

I therefore think that such a generalisation as in the title, cannot be made.

The properties presented here do not always hold for these generalisations.

I cannot make generalisations without a far more detailed study of hospitals.

Bit of a generalisation, no matter how valid in theory it is.

This article could never hope to be comprehensive, but there are some generalisations possible.

As a generalisation it is a fact that new churches grow better than old.

The few generalisations that can be made are discussed at appropriate points below.

But that does not in anyway justify a generalisation of this kind.

It is such a generalisation to say that children have less patience than adults.

A second generalisation concerns the overall relationship between school and the community it serves.

After all no one could make such sweeping generalisations and hope to be thought of as rationale.

I was pointing to the sweeping generalisation made by the Editor.

Ideas are by their nature generalisations, something that can be applied to lots of things.

This is a higher use of knowledge and is called generalisation.

The danger here, in my view, is to confuse these differences by over generalisation.

However in order to form predictions from these generalisations we also need specific initial conditions.

It is time to leave the generalisations behind and adopt practical measures.

A generalization for most of the people we see coming in?

These are easy generalizations to make, no matter your business.

So in that example I think you do have generalizations to break.

I make many generalizations about men and women in this book.

But, for Europe at least, certain generalizations can be made.

This kind of generalization certainly makes sense, but it does not tell us anything about an individual.

All I can tell you is a few basic generalizations.

Though of course in this case his generalization fell on its face.

Much work have been done on the identity and its generalizations.

We're limited to generalizations, and not too many of them.

The generalization from that river to the land as a whole followed soon enough.

Some countries are too big and diverse for easy generalizations.

No generalization to a population beyond cases similar to those studied.

None of the generalizations that we offer you will always work.

There is little evidence in this book to support such grand generalizations.

Certain generalizations are possible, but let's get the stereotypes out of the way first.

The first two generalizations are borne out by the data in Table 5.2.

"Maybe, but it's probably a generalization of many places that you knew at one time."

It's a funny thing about learning and the way people make generalizations.

Although it looks from this as though each word has its own history, certain generalizations can be based on these figures.

When would I ever learn to stop making sweeping generalizations?

It was how the distorted generalizations got started in the first place.

"Better not let any woman hear you make such a generalization.

But the new economists, he says, seem to have lost the power of making any generalizations at all.

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