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Your anecdata is not data


But it serves to counter a ridiculous sweeping generalization.


Anecdata suffices to counter anecdata.


It is when it's countering other anecdata. If anyone has actual data then by all means show it and that will trump the anecdata, but without that, anecdata is all we have.




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