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The Fallacy of Examples, and the problems of extrapolating from media »

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David Weinberger has an intriguing post up today about the "Fallacy of Examples". He's reacting to a column from Nick Kristof in the New York Times titled "The Luckiest Girl", which recounts the story of Beatrice Biira, a young woman from Uganda whose improbable journey through Connecticut College began with the donation of a go

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