• prole
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    18 days ago

    At some point in your adulthood, you’re going to need to learn the difference between anecdotes and actual statistics/evidence. And guess what, you’re going to often find out that your initial thoughts were completely incorrect.

    But that’s fine because it means you learned something.

    Maybe that thing for you, today, could be that no number of personal anecdotes, no matter how powerful they may seem, can form a cogent argument. It’s basically meaningless at any statistically significant level.

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      Statistics also say there are plenty of jobs available and that the economy is healthy, but we know those numbers can be manipulated.