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Originally Posted by bobjob
Of course a single case is not evidence of a general principle - let alone 'sound evidence', the issue earlier under discussion. It's in multiplicity of such examples that a general principle might emerge.
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This is true on the one hand. But very often, such special cases are effective only for a small percentage of people, while for the rest there are severe general statistics with little dynamics in one direction or another.