Generalizing is something we all do in our everyday lives, whether we realize it or not. We all somehow end up making generalizations about things. As stated in our textbook, generalizing is when "we conclude a claim about a group, the population, from a claim about some part of it, the sample." Overall, generalizing is making an argument. Chapter 14 goes in depth about what generalizing is and how a generalization can be good and bad, which is something I did not know before reading the chapter. On page 289, the book gives us the premises needed for a good generalization:
- The sample is representative
- The same is big enough
- The same is studied well
These are all premises to ensure that the generalization made about an argument is good. Overall, even though everyone uses generalization without really realizing it, the book did a great job at describing it and going over all its aspects.
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