That may be one defense, but the counter to that is that personal stories do a better job of winning people to pick a side versus facts and stats. https://www.

That may be one defense, but the counter to that is that personal stories do a better job of winning people to pick a side versus facts and stats. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749597819301633# https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S07495... It's also why anecdotes are often used as a technique of persuasion, because so many people eat them up and it eliminates the need for a citation.