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We are all guilty on many occasions of making generalizations about groups of people or inferences about individuals based on very limited experience or knowledge of them. We might meet one member of a group, say a Welshman who can sing, and this causes us to attribute such vocal ability to all natives of that principality. One student once said to me, ‘I do not like Norwegians, I met one once’. Likewise we read in newspapers that ‘people have no moral values now’ or that ‘politicians are corrupt’. Such generalization is invalid yet generalization is necessary in research.
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Milgram, J. S. (1963). Behavioural study of obedience. J. Abnormal Psychol., 67, 371–378
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Burns, R.B., Dobson, C.B. (1981). Sampling. In: Experimental Psychology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7241-7_7
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