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Old 23-January-2007, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Nereid View Post
However, the objective evidence* is hard to ignore - the kind of ideal example you cite is rare to almost non-existent.
I don't disagree. I have to say that I'm actually pleasantly surprised: 1%-2% seems a little high to me.

What I'm failing to understand, however, is why we are proposing to explicitly throw out the rare "baby" while going out of our way to keep the "bathwater", metaphorically speaking? Don't we like "babies"?
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