Indeed. It's good to keep that in mind when we're encouraged to draw firm conclusions - or, worse, provoked into strong emotions - based on broad abstractions.

Indeed. It's good to keep that in mind when we're encouraged to draw firm conclusions - or, worse, provoked into strong emotions - based on broad abstractions. Of course, we often do need to form opinions, but it follows that we should appropriately discount our conclusions, and appropriately weight those of people who have more-detailed experience.