noun
- a person who makes broad statements or conclusions based on limited information or examples
- in logic and mathematics, a function or operator that produces a general rule or pattern from specific instances
Usage: technical; formal logic and mathematics
Examples
- He is a generalizer who often makes sweeping claims without sufficient evidence.
- The researcher warned against being a generalizer when studying small sample sizes.
- A good scientist avoids being a generalizer and instead tests hypotheses carefully.
- The generalizer concluded that all teenagers are lazy based on observing just three students.
- In machine learning, a generalizer must balance fitting training data with avoiding overfitting.