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If you have 6 things, then 5 is as good as you can get to extrapolate about the 6th.


Yes, when you have only 6 things to look at you might take an educated guess based on what might have happened to the first 5. It's the sort of contextual, gut-driven judgement people call a hunch.

That's fine for a conversation about facebook after a few beers... it's pretty silly to take that and write a flippin' paper about it and present it as "research".




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