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Sorry and here's your shmoop toos your brought to you

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by anecdotes we learned the hard way they don't help

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with snake bites Different reports were scrawling were scrawling oil

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pulling science note on coconut oil Okay we're done in

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paragraph seven the sentence the evidence we have is anecdotal

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suggests that the evidence is what and hear the potential

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answers likely All right the author makes it pretty clear

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what anecdotal means when she says the evidence we have

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is anecdotal people tell stories about how the practices helped

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them and that's all we have to go on So

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anecdotal evidence is only based on the stories people tell

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right it's like with big foot the loch ness monster

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alien abductions and intelligent congressman remind us later and we'll

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tell you the story of where we were from nineteen

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eighty two eighty five short version is we're not alone

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foresee is definitely no good paragraph clearly warns that we

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can't trust anecdotal evidence because well sometimes people don't know

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what they're talking about our miss informed or they just

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make stuff up people they're the worst even though we

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can totally trust what people say Well choice a takes

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it a little too far just because we can't be

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sure that anecdotal evidence is for real doesn't mean that

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it's all a lie Sometimes people do actually know what

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they're talking about Go figure option d takes it too

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far as well Anecdotal evidence is not meant to be

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straight up fiction The author says that this type of

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evidence comes from stories but they aren't supposed to be

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completely made up We'll be is the best answer By

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far Anecdotal evidence may not be totally untrue but it

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isn't the solid scientific evidence we prefer Can you blame 00:01:48.028 --> [endTime] us Moshi scientific evidence is a kind of revolting

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