Steven,
What I made was not a generalized statement. Read the first 11 words of my comment - which I'll post here in case you missed it:
I have thoroughly enjoyed the conversations I've been in with doctors. . .
Now. Let's take a very close look at those words. In fact, let us highlight some of them for clarity.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the conversations I've been in with doctors. . .
Those three words are very important. By your reckoning, I am making a generalized statement about all physicians. What we in Statistics would refer to as "the population." However, that is patently not true. My statement includes a qualifier that limits, quite severely in fact, the scope of my comment. It limits the scope of my comment to a tiny fraction, if that, of the population of physicians. The wording by very definition refers specifically to the population of physicians that I have actually interacted with. Obviously, since I am but one person and there are tens of thousands of physicians spread across a vast geographic - namely the United States - it would be quite impossible for me to interact with the entire population. I probably haven't even interacted with a tenth of a tenth of a percent of the population.
And, as if things couldn't get any better, my comment has a "Where Claus" where the scope of my comment is limited
even further! So now we get to bring some relational algebra into this mix. Let's take the entire list of physicians I have interacted with (that tenth of a tenth of a percent I spoke of earlier). So even out of the entire list of physicians I have interacted with, we are yet limited further to just those I have had that experience with! So most likely a small subsect of our already small subsect. You could, of course, [censored]-u-me that the entire list of physicians I have ever dealt with has given me that experience, but I would not recommend that.
So, yes, I have had that experience. But, no, I am not saying all physicians are that way. I can't speak to that since I haven't met them all.
By the way, I would like to point out two other flaws with your statement.
1. I am not the person on this thread talking about terminal servers, CALS, and all that. In fact, the clear majority of comments on any thread on this forum where there are recommendations about going Small Business Server, terminal server, or racking up CALS are not made by me - and you even pointed that out in your post. I mostly talk software development.
2. A couple of others on this thread agreed with me or made comments similar to what I said. In fact, the quote you gave includes a comment made by someone else that I was agreeing with. Yet I am the only one who caught you ire.
I find it curious that you chose to zero in on just me and that I am the only person who lost you respect.
JamesNT
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