"Generalizing from a single evaluation conducted in one setting is, at best, premature, " said David B.

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Over-generalizing from the decisions of a handful of publicly-listed firms would be a clear mistake.

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Stripped of its pejorative connotations, stereotyping is just a synonym for generalizing about people and their likely behavior.

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"I would be a little cautious about generalizing from this, " says Schmidt.

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Stories are usually divergent enough from other stories that generalizing aspects of them with tropes rarely do them justice and are ambigous enough that what tropes a story actually uses are debatable.

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But in my discussions with Matt Philo, head of MacKay Shields High Yield Group and a longtime investor in both high-yield bonds and loans, we concluded that generalizing is often difficult to do in the investment business.

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Of course I am generalizing.

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Generalizing to some degree, the regulatory assault on the for-profit sector has been propagated by individuals who either have a vested interest in diminishing the role of for-profit colleges, or have an ideological prejudice against markets and the role that profits play in allocating resources.

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Since many innovations represent a solution to a technical problem, this approach often involved determining other industries (or other situations within the same industry) in which a similar problem arose, and then generalizing the description of the innovation so that it could be used in those other industries or situations.

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