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The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.
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this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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Reminds me of that show Air Crash Investigations, you might know it as Mayday.
They did the episode on the collision of two 747s on Tenerife fairly early in the show's run, so they'd shot the "worst aviation accident in history" wad. And yet the format demanded they quantify the subject's exact place in history. So they start going "It was the worst aviation accident involving an American-manufactured plane flown by a non-American crew in American airspace to occur on a summer Tuesday."