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Blast the balloons of braggarts

I love the “Rule of Three” — one of the many gems from American Pie. It refers to exaggerations in stories of romantic exploits. According to this rule, take the number of women that a man claims to have hooked up with and divide it by three. You get the real total. Similarly, when a girl tells you how many guys she’s slept with, multiply it by three and that’s the real number. The movie says the “Rule” is an exact science, “consistent as gravity”. Apparently, the basis of this so-called rule is a person’s tendency to inflate facts. We [...]

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