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by flukus 3596 days ago
> if 1000s of people are telling the same story, thats 1000s of potential data points... they lose value from being ill defined rather than being small in number. reply

They don't exist in isolation though. If thousands are telling the same story and there is no independent corroboration then it's more likely that one person told a story and thousands repeated it.

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that is a good insight. thanks.