“I didn’t enjoy oysters, therefore, I won’t eat them again,” is useful.
I had a bad reaction to a vaccination therefore vaccines are bad, is not.
There are places to reason by experience, and that’s in the base area of pleasure and pain.
It’s not in the realm where more data trumps n = 1.
(Ironically, those who don’t know what ‘n = 1’ means are the most likely to reason by experience…)
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