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The trouble with anecdotes is that you can use them to prove anything. As in, literally – anything. The scientific method came out of the realization that proving causality (i.e. A causes B) couldn’t be done from anecdotes alone. Teasing out the causality from a single linear sequence of events is logically impossible, since you don’t know what was merely correlation or incidental in causing subsequent changes.

The flip-side is that testimonials – a sales tactic that has been proven to be effective and even studied for its efficacy – are a terrible form of evidence.

That in mind, here’s another story that … Continue Reading