Yeah, but the plausibility of the example is quite small, due to the often found side-effect of reduction of creativity. As an aside, you could argue that an e

Yeah, but the plausibility of the example is quite small, due to the often found side-effect of reduction of creativity. As an aside, you could argue that an example is one instance from a larger set, where N >> 1 and where the other instances lend credibility to the reported example. Erdos's story, on the other hand, would be anecdotal evidence, not supported by any other similar story.