 Humans are storytellers. We like stories from the time, you know, we're little and people tell us things. And when we're older, it's anecdotes. Anecdotes catch our imaginations. They stick in our memories. And I think humans have evolved to be anecdotal creatures because, you know, prior to the invention of writing and, you know, widespread literacy, which is a very recent thing, that's the way we pass down wisdom from generation to generation, you know, what plant not to eat, what animal to stay away from, because it's going to eat you, these sorts of things. And you tell stories about Uncle Joe, who got too close to that big cat and it just bit his leg off, right? No, God, I'm not going to do that, right? And we embellish it with all kinds of other things to make it more scary so the kids don't go anywhere near the thing, right? And we're anecdotal creatures. And anecdotes give us on top of that in entertaining a colorful way to look at, to grapple with the world around us. The problem is, good decisions are more often made by statistics or analysis of statistics than by consulting anecdotes. And the problem with statistics is they're not colorful. They're not interesting, right? We have to force kids to sit through stats classes because nobody likes this stuff. While there's no way to make statistics more palatable, it is at least necessary to communicate to people who maybe aren't interested in knowing about statistics. There are great drawbacks to using anecdotes as your map for the world as you go about making decisions. And at least help people to understand things like, you know, when you make a decision to ban a drug or to ban a particular type of weapon or to subsidize this thing or tax that thing, that it's important to hold that back a little bit and remember that the data are the things that we should consult in making decisions. Your heart is a wonderful thing to consult in asking the question, what is it we should be making decisions about? But the decision itself needs to be driven by data.