True enough, although they are limited to the amount of time they have to spend on each one.
And, just to play devil's advocate, the question they're usually asking is "Can this possibly be true?". So a single data point conclusively replicating the myth does confirm it. If they were trying to prove the *likelihood* of something, they'd need bigger data sets. (Where to draw the line between plausible and confirmed is fuzzy, but it really depends on how you frame the questions.)
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Date: 2010-05-29 01:32 pm (UTC)And, just to play devil's advocate, the question they're usually asking is "Can this possibly be true?". So a single data point conclusively replicating the myth does confirm it. If they were trying to prove the *likelihood* of something, they'd need bigger data sets. (Where to draw the line between plausible and confirmed is fuzzy, but it really depends on how you frame the questions.)