No, not just another way of expressing the same old, same old canard about damn lies, but an interesting post, Stories vs. Statistics by JOHN ALLEN PAULOS from the New York Times.
One quote I particularly like: "The more details there are in a story, the less likely it is that the conjunction of all of them is true."
Coincidentally I recently heard for the first time of the technique of Anchoring Vignettes - horrible term - used in some social science research.
Interesting attempts to combine the hard ('inhuman') with the more people-friendly approach to sorting out the meaning of life.
