He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "He was generalising and the media pick up on a generalisation and it suddenly becomes true or false.
Generalising from Julia's work, and plotting the result using specially written graphics software, Dr Mandelbrot produced the first images of the Mandelbrot set in 1980.
Some said that experienced CEOs, long favoured as lecturers on the subject, can have trouble generalising from their own experiences.
And if so, does it matter?Generalising about political parties is difficult.
Generalising from that would be ambitious.
Mr Aslan highlighted the absurdity in generalising about as entire religion based on the actions of a small minority of its followers.
In his post, he implored the public to be sympathetic towards "victims of discrimination" and to stop generalising the community because of the actions of terrorists.
Again he pulls back a little by adding, "I'm just generalising really.
"We need to take care when generalising these results because it is based on the South Korean population, who have a different diet and lifestyle".
"We need to take care when generalising these results because it is based on the South Korean population, who have different diet and lifestyle habits to people in the UK".
OK, OK - before you start writing angry letters about how the feminist sisterhood is perfectly capable of bonding over full-fat chicken tikka masala (and banoffee pie for afters), while their brothers like nothing better than a plate of raw fish - I do know I'm generalising here.
