The book's focus is a specific form of Protestant Christianity, and it will undoubtedly be criticised for making sweeping and generalised claims extrapolated from just one type of religion.
The challenge this poses includes building models to test the nature of generalised claims, and hence to challenge recommendations and policies that can vary between the dubious and the dangerous.
With less than 10% of our overall sample addressing women's own accounts of abortion, lived experience took a back seat to moral judgements and generalised claims about abortion.
We found no studies in the published literature that looked at the effects of a sport-for-development program on a validated measure of other-group orientation, beyond more generalised claims for impacts on community cohesion [ 7] highlighting the unique finding about this construct from the current study.
If we wish to conduct research that is focussed on a very specific problem, and are not concerned with making generalised moral claims, we need a method that will accommodate this narrow focus.
Given that we were not seeking in this study to make knowledge claims that generalised to specified populations we did not attempt to achieve saturation of our data by recruiting to a large sample.
By contrast, Context-Driven theorists claim that both generalised and particularised implicatures are generated by the same process and only where there is contextual support (Carston, 1998; Sperber & Wilson, 1986 i.a).a
But there are more generalised reasons to be wary: Admiral's bizarre pseudoscientific claim that exclamation mark use indicated a bad driver, for instance.
Earlier this year, Sara Amhed, a professor at Goldsmiths University, was moved to resign because she claimed sexual harassment was becoming "normalised and generalised" and "part of the culture of academia".
But what started as individual protests over specific instances is rapidly blending into a generalised anger among Sanders supporters who believe it all proves their claim that the political system is "rigged" against ordinary Americans.
