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xkcd #3262: Sports Commentary

Title text:

The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3262/

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is only in America btw.

Literally comments all over this thread talking about Austria and Australian Cricket and Argentina.

Must be that it is only countries that begin with A and the stats are just working through alphabetically.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I was the first comment in the whole thread…

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ok. And is there more to that?

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 1 minute ago

... how were there "literally comments all over this thread" talking about other countries when I first commented, if I was the first to comment.