Sometime blogger and oftentime friend Anantha sends this nugget from Überplanner Russell Davis' blog to me to mull over. It's about research and it goes like this: "if you want to study a river you don't take out a bucketful of water and stare at it on the shore. A river is not its water, and by taking the water out of the river, you lose the essential quality of river, which is its motion, its activity, its flow."
The next time you try to extrapolate sense from a sample size, think about it.
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