generalise• What is to stop us generalising?• Yet the evidence we have available suggests that this is too specific and narrow an example from which to generalise.• As Anne Gray has pointed out, it is difficult to generalise about housekeeping systems.• I think it's hard to generalise about westernfeminism and third world feminism.• Quite apart from the dubious legitimacy of generalising from one such fragment, it is uncertain how the data itself should be interpreted.• It is always risky to generalise from particulars.• Eleven years of trapping has demonstrated that it is inadvisable to generalise from two or three years' experience.• What is wrong is the tendency to generalisenegativeattitudes and to blame the victim.