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

Mrs. Shashoua ought to remind herself that reasonable generalizations depend on " observing representative samples."

A representative sample refers to a group that nearly coordinates the attributes of its populace in general. As such, the example is a genuinely precise impression of the populace from which the example is drawn.