generalization

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The SAT thing is a pretty weird generalization.\nSome of us just took the test, got the score, and that was that.

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reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

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noun

reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

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an idea or conclusion having general application; "he spoke in broad generalities"

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the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for generalization.

noun

reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

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an idea or conclusion having general application; "he spoke in broad generalities"

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the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances

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(psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus

Example sentences

The SAT thing is a pretty weird generalization.\nSome of us just took the test, got the score, and that was that.

Or can we just agree, that this kind of generalization is silly and pointless?

There is no black point and that's a bad thing for the image; which leads me to say you can't make the sweeping generalization that black is always bad.

So you learn slower per session but show better generalization and retention of material in the long term.

"As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false.

A sweeping generalization of business and product people.

Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one.

Yes, there is at least one generalization that we can make with confidence: each center, when it was at its peak, was a place where foreign merchants felt safe and comfortable.

Is there any generalization we can make that is true of all civilizations, in all centuries, and for which we have fairly detailed records, even going back thousands of years?

100x productivity is of course a generalization and has received valid criticism, but examples from sports and trading are irrelevant.

Again, the ES spec doesn't mandate this, but in practice it's widely implemented, and the spec does say that if you implement it its behavior needs to be the proper generalization of the other radices.

How do you implement it without just copying code around?The "standard" implementation consists of two operations, generalization and instantiation.

That we're making a generalization out of humanity's life experiences is futile in itself, but alas, the application of said generalization here is far more interesting to me.