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What does overgeneralized mean?

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  1. simple past tense and past participle of overgeneralize
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Regarding the need for replication Manzi again gives an example how another famous one-off RFT was wildly overgeneralized, the jam experiment.
Still, the situation of child rights should not be overgeneralized.
In its search for regionally significant priorities, the GPAC ensured that issues of importance to local areas but not universally significant throughout the Region, were not lost, overlooked, or overgeneralized.
It is often claimed that processes of population ageing increase the burden on productive sectors of the economya claim that tends to be based on overgeneralized notions of consumption and dependency in later life.
This all-or-nothing attitude became overgeneralized to the point where they brought on the very failures or calamities they fought against acquiring.
I sort of suspect that someone's had a rather traumatic experience here, and overgeneralized it to the entire universe.

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