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Generalizations directed at either side are neither accurate nor helpful.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024

Generalizations, again, don’t speak to your specific needs.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2022

Generalizations are misleading; too much depends on specific circumstances.

From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2018

Generalizations are always a fraught enterprise: clearly not all businessmen are terrible people, but that isn’t the point.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2017

Generalizations which rest only on the Method of Agreement can only be received as empirical laws 43 6.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart