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The contention is whether you can accurately ascertain the experiences of any of the cohorts that you cite.

Each cohort literally represents millions of people (billions if including the world). This makes the cohorts meaningless.

And it's in the category of generalizations that we've been fighting. It's part of the problem, not the solution.




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