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		nico_h on March 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were stri... there are a lot of anecdotes about how a song or a book or a movie changed someone's life.

andrepd on March 1, 2020 | [–]

As opposed to research changing someone's life.

scarface74 on March 1, 2020 | | [–]

> there are a lot of anecdotes.

craftinator on March 1, 2020 | [–]

There are a lot of data about how many people have been saved through research. Anecdotes are data with n=1. Not a great comparison.

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