A problem with your statement is that you can substitute "data" for "anecdotes": A plurality of data sampled without bias? That's the problem: interesting ane

A problem with your statement is that you can substitute "data" for "anecdotes": A plurality of data sampled without bias? That's the problem: interesting anecdotes become data while uninteresting anecdotes don't, which is why you can't reconstruct the anecdotes from the data.