Why you can and should generalise sometimes

Whenever you’re critical about a group of people you’ll always have that one person that says “You can’t generalise everyone based on XYZ”. This infuriates me because it’s simply not true, and something someone says when they don’t like what’s being said and but they can’t combat it.

Yes, in some situations you shouldn’t generalise and you can’t as you don’t have a big enough sample size.

You literally have to generalise sometimes or it’s impossible to speak about certain subjects. Generalising can be helpful in many cases, and what else do you expect me to do? speak about every individual person I’ve met.

I’m aware of the outliers

When I’m speaking about a subject and making general statements I am aware of the outliers and the fact what I’m saying may not apply to everyone I’m speaking about.

You generalise so you can get your point across without having to spend an hour speaking about everything individually. It also helps you convey what things are generally like, you don’t always have to be exact.

If you’re in a room with 10 people and 8 of them are mean, then there is no harm in saying that you were in a room of mean people. You don’t have to point out the people that were ok unless it’s important to the overall point…