I enjoyed the chapter on generalizing. I feel that this is something people around me do often, and I feel that it often leads to bad consequences. Generalization is very closely related with stereotyping, and such generalized has led to incidents like the holocaust various genocides. While they are obviously very rare cases, they happened as a result of generalization. The section of this that I appreciated the most if the section on sampling. I think often peoples people look at statistics and do not look at all the aspects that go into a statical graph. People need to know there is a major difference between “random sampling” and “Representative sampling”. Knowing these terms, and understanding ideas such as variation and risk, allow citizens to make informed decisions when reading statistics. Companies often try to deceive people by using misleading stats and charts, and there are very few (if any) laws in place to prohibit this business practice.
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"Generalization is very closely related with stereotyping, and such generalized has led to incidents like the holocaust various genocides." I feel like I should agree with what you're saying, but that's just my appeal to emotion kicking in. You make an argument that generalizing is similar to stereotyping, and that "such generalized has led to incidents like the holocaust." The problem is you don't back up your statement with any proof, which would make your argument stronger depending on what you use to prove your claim. While we could individually look up evidence to support your claim, the burden of proof should lie with you, the person making the argument rather than the person you're trying to claim. Also, I didn't mean to write this to offend you or anything, I just needed to comment on someone's blog and yours was the only one I could think of a subject to write on.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your post, but we were supposed to write about a topic from ch 14 and briefly discuss it, not make a generalization and back it up. I used it as an example, but since you asked.
ReplyDeleteBoth Involve making a broad statement or belief based of many (in some cases, limited) smaller examples. A general statement could be that "I do not like Green food", When In reality, I may have only tried peas and green bell peppers. A stereotype is when you form a belief about a particular group based on examples. "All Green foods taste terrible" is an example of that. They are not the same, but very related. In WW2, Hitler stereotyped the Jewish culture, and made generalizations that they were the "Inferior race". The Holocaust was a result of generalizations made by a select group of people.