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On the other hand, when someone claims something is impossible/something has never happened before/something happens every single time, but you have just 1 anecdote from a credible source that contradicts that claim, then that 1 anecdote is enough to know that they are wrong.

Example: some pundit states: our government has never executed an innocent man. You just need proof that they have executed a single innocent man to show that the pundit has no credibility on the subject and that it's thus not an impossibility that other executed men were also innocent.

Doesn't a "lot of anecdotal evidence" eventually become a sample set?

I agree that anecdotes aren't worthless, but for different reasons. There's actually a saying that goes, "the plural of anecdote isn't data." Anecdotes are just stories. They aren't data points and they aren't peer reviewed. If you want to turn anecdotes into data, you have to do the proper interviews and surveys to actually build a dataset and then get the peer review, but at that point we aren't talking about anecdotes anymore.

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People on the internet will actually go out of their way to prove you wrong with factual evidence

Is the incompleteness theorem humanities? I thought it was comsci?

Edit: Oh God I'm dumb it's not comsci idk why I said that lol, but it is still mathematics.

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so a way to incorporate sources into the posts and judge them accordingly?

Actual fact: The democrats don’t control the weather and create hurricanes to destroy Florida.

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