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		nick_riviera on July 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Drone operator explains how he found missing man My point exactly. To make a rational judgement about a statistic we need statistics (plural) otherwise it's an isolated piece of data.

icebraining on July 25, 2014 [–]

But this is not a statistic (singular), it's just a fact. There's no implicit judgment about drones as a whole. It's simply something that happened.

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