Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Generalize

Generalizing can be two very distinct meanings. The first one is we conclude a claim about a population from a claim by a sample. The next is finding the inductive evidence for the generalization. Generalizing also means in a statement to find the key words to see the sample of the statement to show the inductive evidence in a statement. From personal experiences to a mad up story, generalizing shows that  a group of population to sample from. In theory sampling is done with a research of a group of people. For example if you want to sample how many SJSU students are Engineering majors there are a few ways. We can randomly ask 1000 students what there major is and assume Engineering is the greatest. Or get the info from the department and make a percentage who are from the whole school. Generalizing is good in big groups of people and not small, because there is not enough info to generalize what you are trying to research.

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