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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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[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I was the first comment in the whole thread…

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Ok. And is there more to that?

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours 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.