"Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
...
> On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 1:00:23 AM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> >> *shudder* Okay then. Nobody I know here does anything like that.
>> >> They
>> >> just get Starbucks to go.
>> >
>> > The Seattle metropolitan area has 3.6 million people. How many of
>> > them do you know? I believe your sample size is a little too small
>> > (and biased) to make any generalizations.
>>
>> How did I generalize? I said "nobody I know here".
>
> Here's an analogy:
>
> Me: Chinese people tend to like rice
>
> You: Not the one that I know
>
> There are so many people doing so many different things, that to say
> "nobody I know here" is not worth wasting the electrons to make
> the post.

That's not generalizing either if I say that one specific person that I know
doesn't like rice.