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opinions or beliefs that are held or accepted by most people
Conventional wisdom in Hollywood says that a movie can't succeed unless it stars a famous actor or actress.
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Teenagers are tested on more advanced skills, such as making generalizations from a reading passage and comparing information from charts and graphs.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 June 2026 -
Of course, if the AI does generalize, the difficulty is that the AI generalizations about mental health might be off base.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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And research suggests such stereotypes aren’t far off.—
Anirban Mukhopadhyay,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
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This includes studying how children develop false stereotypes about who can become a scientist.—
Remy Dou,
The Conversation,
10 June 2026
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