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The Law of Small Numbers
People are not adequately sensitive to sample sizethe message about the pole. Your summary would be the same if the sample size had been different. We are prone to exaggerate the consistency and coherence of what we see. The law of small numbers is a manifestation of a general bias that favors certainty over doubt, which will turn up in many guises in following chapters.