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bluGill
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I stand corrected:
https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2012/11/03/monkeys-and-in...
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iliveinberlin
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parables that didn't happen can still be useful
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bux93
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The parable-replication crisis is real though
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bluGill
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They can be, but you need to take care as sometimes they are misleading and can even drive wrong decisions.
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fhdkweig
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Aesop wrote a lot of fables that had contradictory lessons.
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bluGill
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I have more than once in life realized that one of the two contradictory lessons was correct for this situation, but in a different one the other was correct...
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HPsquared
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There's a meta-lesson there.
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