{"id":8038,"date":"2019-05-22T16:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/generalization\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:03:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:03:21","slug":"generalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/generalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Generalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extent to which the observations or findings from a given study may also be true at other times or in other populations defined by age, residence, or any other distinctive set of characteristics. &nbsp;Then there is an associated logical fallacy: the fallacy of hasty generalization. &nbsp;This occurs when a conclusion about a population is drawn based on a sample that is not large enough to justify it (thus sometimes it is referred to as the fallacy of insufficient statistics). &nbsp;The type of generalization considered should not be confused with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.explorepsychology.com\/stimulus-generalization-definition-examples\/\" data-editable-link=\"https:\/\/www.explorepsychology.com\/stimulus-generalization-definition-examples\/?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stimulus generalization<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"attrition\">Attrition<\/a>, <a href=\"community_survey\">Community survey<\/a>, <a href=\"ecological_validity\">Ecological validity<\/a>, <a href=\"external_validity\">External validity<\/a>, <a href=\"internal_validity\">Internal validity<\/a>, <a href=\"participant_observation\">Participant observation<\/a>, <a href=\"qualitative_research\">Qualitative research<\/a>, <a href=\"quantitative_research\">Quantitative research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extent to which the observations or findings from a given study may also be true at other times or in other populations defined by age, residence, or any other distinctive set of characteristics. &nbsp;Then there is an associated logical fallacy: the fallacy of hasty generalization. &nbsp;This occurs when a conclusion about a population is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/generalization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Generalization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}