Sometimes in debates on various issues, either side of the debate can claim a broken record as strong evidence/proof of their point of view - whether we're talking about politics, economics, science, sport or anything else. The reality is that we have enough events and ways of measuring them that simply from a normal distribution records will regularly be broken in something, without being anything else than just normal. If you highlight the specific issue after the fact then the odds of it happening may have been extremely low - but we don't however notice the absence of anything special happening, that gets taken for granted, so just the extremes get noticed and assumed to mean something strange is happening.

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