What do we actually know?
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A campus group wanted to change the evening shuttle route. Its empirical evidence came from counts of passengers boarding at each stop during a trial week. Students also supplied anecdotal accounts of inconvenient journeys. Those individual stories raised useful questions, but a claim that nearly everyone preferred the proposed route remained conjecture until the group gathered broader feedback.
Maya placed the boarding counts beside the written comments. The empirical results showed what the observers had recorded, while the anecdotal reports described particular experiences. She resisted turning either source into a conclusion it could not support. Her suggestion that an earlier departure might attract different riders was still conjecture, so she marked it as an idea to test.
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