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I bet Hawaiians working in tourism meet a lot more people than I do. Maybe as many as two hundred a day (granted, only for a few minutes at those volumes). If
by NateEag 5y ago
I bet Hawaiians working in tourism meet a lot more people than I do. Maybe as many as two hundred a day (granted, only for a few minutes at those volumes).
If you manage to do that five days a week for thirty years, you meet 1.4 million people, or 0.4% of the US population.
Obviously in most cases you'd have no idea about how smart most of these people are. You'd probably remember the ones who did especially dumb or especially smart things in the three minutes you interacted with them, which doesn't actually tell you much about how smart they are. It's even worse for that than a puzzle-trivia interview.
I think my point stands, even for a Hawaiian in tourism.
- 1123581321 5y agoI don’t suppose there is any scenario in which you would give human observation credit. Regarding sufficient sample size, a person in that scenario would achieve it in weeks, or perhaps a year, assuming variance in types of visitors over the seasons.
- NateEag 5y agoThere are tons of scenarios in which I think human observations are all that matters. I think trying to generalize about populations on this scale from personal interactions is worse than pointless. I have plenty of value for a reduced statement, one that acknowledges explicitly that the speaker can only legitimately talk about his experiences, not the US or Japanese populations as a whole.