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I would say that's called an anecdote.


Exactly. The "it works for me so it works" type of thinking is what makes people mistakenly conclude that homoeopathy works any better than a placebo.


So how do you go from 0 experiments to 10000000 experiments without passing from 1 experiment?

Care to explain?

Perhaps if you're at 0 experiments you can't really have an opinion? Which is the situation of the person I replied to.


And deciding if it works or not without trying even on yourself? What's that called?




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