> Surely there is one person in the world: that would be the anecdote to the data. We can't disregard something if there is one conflicting data point, unless w

> Surely there is one person in the world: that would be the anecdote to the data. We can't disregard something if there is one conflicting data point, unless we're talking about maths or proofs. The claim here was "no single counter-datapoint can possibly exist", so in this case, one counter-datapoint is indeed sufficient to prove the claim false.