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>>tysone+(OP)
Why do these articles always start with a story about a person? I see this in nearly all articles from american news papers. It's strange.

Seems like a paper from a young student who needs to get his 3000 wordcount.

It just bloats the article and makes it difficult to get the information out of it.

>>Tommek+R11
People are humans, they relate to individual stories more than raw statistics.

I think it's great, it shows there's always a human side to trends and large statistics.

>>noober+621
And that's how we get those "vaccines cause autism" mothers. They like stories more than statistics, too.

>>Tommek+b21
Polemic. We also get stories like, "despite a strong economic recovery, John, 26, struggles to find a new job after being laid off."

>>anonco+w41
That's my point.

>>Tommek+c51
If you only look at numbers and not individual stories, you miss the blind-spots of your data.

>>cyborg+J51
Completely agree. Additionally, data segmentation is important. For example, if you segment employment data by college degree, you would see that overall employment has not risen at all for those without a college degree.

It's like saying the average net worth of Jeff Bezos and 99 homeless people is 1 billion USD, etc etc