"Hadron Quark" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Statistics can prove anything. I doubt very much if I can find anyone
who has banged their head in 30 years of walking down the street : yet
can find many who have bashed their heads to various degrees when taking
tumbles off bikes.
On the contrary, anecdote can prove anything. As you so conveniently
supply, above.
The reason why we use statistics is that, properly done (controls, matching,
large sample sizes, confidence intervals, etcetera), they are far superior
to anecdote. They are also far superior to the plural of anecdote, which
some people here are erroneously calling "common sense".