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You did not answer the question which was not if there ever was any case at all, but how many. An individual example is useless when the question is about if so

You did not answer the question which was not if there ever was any case at all, but how many. An individual example is useless when the question is about if something works at (even minor) scale.

dnautics 6y ago
nobody is claiming that my experience is extrapolatable ad infinitum. However, if it was such a rare thing, what are the odds that someone like me would exist? > An individual example is useless when the question is about if something works at (even minor) scale That is incorrect. The plural of anecdote is data.
- boyobo 6y ago
  > However, if it was such a rare thing, what are the odds that someone like me would exist? Someone wins the lottery every week. What are the odds of winning the lottery? Is playing the lottery a good strategy to make money?
  - dnautics 6y ago
    Did you not see the "n=5" bit?
    - boyobo 6y ago
      Do you understand the concept of correlation? "Usain bolt won the olypmic gold medal many times (n=8). If winning the gold medal was so rare, what are the odds that people like Usain Bolt exist?"
- kyawzazaw 6y ago
  It's the rare thing. I bet that if you go to any big tech companies, you will find that pretty much none of the engineers got hired by impressing a CEO
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  - dnautics 6y ago
    Not all CEOs are CEOs of big companies. I went to a middle class high school in the US and no less than 5 of the students in my class of 70 are or have been CEOs.
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