Citations:overclassify

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English citations of overclassify

  • 1984, Christopher Carr, “The Nature of Organization of Intrasite Archaeological Records and Spatial Analytic Approaches to Their Investigation”, Michael B. Schiffer (ed.), Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Academic Press, Inc., ISSN 0162-8003, →ISBN, volume 7, part 3, 124:
    An overly divisive typology also will yield polythetic depositional sets. Care must be taken not to overclassify artifacts, particularly with the assemblages of mobile populations who apparently are more opportunistic about the tools they use to accomplish tasks.
  • 2010, Bernard E. Whitley Jr., Mary E. Kite, The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination, Cengage Learning (2nd ed.), →ISBN, chapter 4, 126:
    The participants classified the people in the pictures as Jewish or not Jewish. People who were prejudiced against Jews tended to overclassify the people in the pictures as Jewish; that is, they tended to err on the side of classifying Gentiles as Jews rather than err by classifying Jews as Gentiles.