The children in Mrs. Shashoua's neighborhood make fun of her limp. She concludes that today's kids are typically cruel and insensitive. Mrs. Shashoua ought to remind herself that reasonable generalizations depend on

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Mrs. Shashoua's conclusion about today's kids being typically cruel and insensitive is a generalization. Reasonable generalizations require observing representative samples, which means that Mrs. Shashoua needs to assess whether all children in her neighborhood are actually cruel and insensitive towards her or if only certain ones are. Without observing a representative sample, her generalization about today's kids would likely be inaccurate.

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