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Aimless:
It's just... heavy :x

Also, the plural of anecdote is data:

http://evidence-based-science.blogspot.se/2009/11/plural-of-anecdote-is-data.html

mind = blown

Pilchard123:

S1  =  1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 ...
1 - S1  =  1 - [1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 ...]  =  1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 ...  =  S1
1 - S1  = S1
S1  =  1/2


S2  =  1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + 5 - 6 + 7 ...
2S2  =  1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + 5 - 6 + 7 ... +
                  1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + 5 - 6 + 7 ...
2S2  =  1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 ...
2S2  =  S1
S2  =  1/4


S3  =  1 + 2 + 3 +4 + 5 + 6 ...
S3 - S2  =  1 + 2 + 3 +4 + 5 + 6 ... -
                   1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + 5 - 6
S3 - S2  =  0 + 4 + 0 + 8 + 0 + 12 ...  =  4 + 8 + 12 ...
S3 - S2  =  4 [1 + 2 + 3 ...]  =  4S3
S3 - S2  =  4S3
- S2  =  3S3
-1/4  =  3S3
-1/12  =  S3
-1/12  =  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 ...

Grognard:
stop that.

you're reinforcing my perception that I'm dumb as a box of rocks.

Barmymoo:

--- Quote from: Aimless on 07 Mar 2014, 12:47 ---It's just... heavy :x

Also, the plural of anecdote is data:

http://evidence-based-science.blogspot.se/2009/11/plural-of-anecdote-is-data.html

mind = blown

--- End quote ---

It's a clever quote, because of course it's true - if enough people say that something has happened to them, then collectively their answers are labelled "research data" - but also it is not true - saying something multiple times doesn't increase its validity.

LTK:
Though not very good data. For starters, aggregating anecdotes is just going to lead to a massive confirmation bias. Think of what happens when you compare the number of anecdotes about Jews being greedy to the number of anecdotes about them not being greedy.

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