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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by nico_h on Sunday March 01, 2020 @12:44PM (#22457985)
there are a lot of anecdotes about how a song or a book or a movie changed someone's life.
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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by andrepd on Sunday March 01, 2020 @06:59PM (#22460323)
As opposed to research changing someone's life.
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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by scarface74 on Sunday March 01, 2020 @03:23PM (#22459044)
> there are a lot of anecdotes.
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Re:UC Santa Cruz fires 54 grad students who were striking fo... by craftinator on Sunday March 01, 2020 @12:58PM (#22458089)
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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