generalize

IPA: dʒˈɛnɝʌɫaɪz

Examples of "generalize" in Sentences

Maybe modern conditions are so different that you can't generalize from the past.
When you generalize from a random sample to a population, your inferences are highly likely to be correct.
Parents who generalize from the apparent contentedness of their own children are indulging a dangerous fallacy.
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.
I know its bad to generalize from a single experience, but adding my own several years of experience in Mexico to the mix, I can only conclude the following: private services exist only for people who have the money to pay for them, and in Mexico, private health services are outrageously expensive.