"I can't keep you from being stupid, but I will help make it hurt."
Also, "anecdote" and "data" are not the same thing. They're not even close.
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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
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- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
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"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
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3 comments:
Simple and elegant.
I like it.
And I've heard it expressed as "The plural of anecdote is not data."
old saw...
information: fiction <----> truth
Quantification: Anecdotes != data
Yes making fictions and wild speculation without support
are describes with a smaller word, lies.
Eck!
Love it. I will quote you.
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