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A writer traced a famous anecdote about quantity versus quality in pottery to its printed source and to both coauthors' accounts of its origin, concluding it was never a study.
Written by AI from LessWrong's published text.
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“Epistemic status: I traced one famous anecdote to its printed source and to both coauthors' own accounts of where it came from. Confident it was never a study. No claim either way about whether quantity beats quality in general.”
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