Everything you say may be true, but we both know that the plural of "anecdote" is not "data". >>Well, a certain firm on Wall Street that just hired my services would beg to differ
Some of them also think that the plural of "taxpayer bailout dollars" is "irrelevant", though your kids and grandkids might not agree as they cover the debt forever.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1