| I_Heart_Nintendo said: I've traveled quite a lot, and the one thing you can hear at any international airport, tourist destination or public transport interchange is Americans talking REALLY loudly about nothing in particular. Like describing minute by minute what they did that day to painstaking detail, or commenting on mundane things around them at the time. I'm not being mean, It's just an observation :) |
I'm not saying you're being mean...I'm saying your conclusion is a non-sequitar. An intent to be mean won't change the validity of a comment, so I have no interest in addressing your intentions when I can simply disprove the statement's validity.
Since you didn't actually determine how many Americans were there and weren't being loud, or even if the people you assumed were American actually were American, your anecdote is worthless as a means to draw any conclusion about Americans in general. Even if you had properly sampled and collected data you wouldn't be able to draw a conclusions about americans in general but about American Tourists specifically. Because by only sampling Americans in foreign terminals there would be a sampling bias towards American tourists.
Your entire argument is based on saying "I've seen some Americans behave like this, therefor Americans behave like this in general.". By that logic I could claim that muslims are generally suicide bombers (which is obviously false).
Realize that you're on a website that uses statistics to track gaming sales and that the concept I'm speaking of (ie that anecdotal evidence is not a substitute for properly sampled and analyzed data) is well understood here.
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