No generalization is wholly true, not even this one.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
#Generalizations
No generalization is wholly true, not even this one.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
No generalization is wholly true, not even this one.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Impressive how some people make broad generalizations for an entire discipline based only on their experience in specific application domains within the discipline.
The Top 10 Hasty Generalizations That Plague Our Society Today https://buff.ly/49n0SGs #culture #society #assumptions #generalizations #ShallowThinking #oversimplification
25 years from now in the USA, Gen AA will be shouting "Okay, MILLENNIAL!" all day on the social media neural implants that President Musk ordered that we all get.
You'll be laughing at them because they don't know how to change a light bulb. They'll be laughing at you because you can't walk anymore. #Generalizations #StopIt
Maria Servedio's ASN Presidential Address from #Evol2023 is now available for viewing ("Pitfalls of #generalizations Lessons learned in #speciation research"), along with the presenting of ASN Awards!
https://youtu.be/wLD5wDn3lgE
#Intelligence is not just about #pattern-#matching. Equally important is the ability to draw #generalizations.
Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 work of art Fountain is a prime example of this. Before Duchamp’s piece, a urinal was just a urinal. But, with a change of perspective, Duchamp turned it into a work of art. At that moment, he was #generalizing about #art.
When we generalise, #emotion overrides the entrenched and seemingly “rational” classifications of ideas and everyday objects. It suspends the usual, nearly machinic operations of pattern-matching.
@A1kmm @ColinTheMathmo also not a math teacher so maybe I'm a fool but I am reminded of the extensive proofs that .999... = 1, which I've personally always found easy to accept, but https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...#Generalizations might help explain it.
AIUI there is no rounding to get to .5, it already *is* .5 and therefore rounds up. I can't imagine this being a good thing to teach kids (let alone test) without a lot of context though, because this concept *feels* wrong to people
> For an Italian, time considerations will usually be subjected to human feelings. "Why are you so angry because I came at 9:30?" he asks his German colleague. "Because it says 9:00 in my diary," says the German. "Then why don't you write 9:30 and then we'll both be happy?" is a logical Italian response. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-different-cultures-understand-time-2014-5
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