In the absence of data, Levine not only
overgeneralizes but also underinterprets material that might offer better explanations.
An important chapter of the book deals with African countries, although its author does not focus on any one in particular, and possibly
overgeneralizes at times.
When a doctor seeks to justify her unilateral "no" on evaluative grounds--for example, withdrawing life-sustaining care from a patient in a persistent vegetative state because such a form of life seems not worth sustaining--she
overgeneralizes her medical expertise.
Epstein also
overgeneralizes in his attack on public programs.
In drawing firm conclusions about the place of merit in academic decision making, it seems that the author
overgeneralizes from these suspect samples.
If she
overgeneralizes her case, however, her shrewd analysis of the violence that attended specific ways of acknowledging human agency is an important addition to the literature of slavery.
An offense-based system for juveniles denies the individual characteristics of each child and
overgeneralizes by enforcing a "one-size-fits-all" strategy.
Cecil-Fronsman's description of specific events and interactions is often richly suggestive, but in some ways his ambitious analysis
overgeneralizes and therefore cannot bring into clear focus a complex picture that had many discrete elements.
The book alone sometimes chooses the flip, the trivial, to illustrate, and it occasionally
overgeneralizes (though the author warns us, at the end, that Americans should beware of glib generalizations about Japanese business, especially those that seek to uncover 'the secret' of japan's economic success").
It
overgeneralizes, selecting from history, business, and technology the data that fit its preconceptions.
