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No, it gives you a lot of anecdotal evidence that is impossible to decouple from the specific circumstances of the situation. E.g my experience with my union ha
by bjourne 8y ago
No, it gives you a lot of anecdotal evidence that is impossible to decouple from the specific circumstances of the situation. E.g my experience with my union has been the completely opposite of everything stated by bhawks. So + 1 - 1 = 0, words have been exchanged but nothing learned.
- yellowapple 8y ago"Nothing learned" only if you don't care about those "specific circumstances". The anecdotal datapoints are useful specifically because Earth's population of 7+ billion humans is remarkably efficient when it comes to running across corner cases and confounding variables. We're talking about something that does indeed have very-situationally-dependent impacts and effects. The anecdotes require filtering, sure, but they're vital if you want aggregate data that reflect the real world instead of theoretical conditions. If it's impossible to decouple something from the specific circumstances of the situation, then that "something" is insufficiently understood.