Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
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Summary
Knowing more has never meant more。
Gender identity ideology is about more than twitter storms and using the right pronouns。 In just ten years， laws， company policies， school and university curricula， sport， medical protocols， and the media have been reshaped to privilege self-declared gender identity over biological sex。
People are being sacked and silenced for attempting to understand the consequences of redefining ‘man’ and ‘woman’。 While compassion for transgender lives is well-intentioned， it is stifling much-needed inquiry into the significance of our bodies， particularly with regard to women’s rights， fairness in sport， same sex attraction and children’s development。
If we recommit to our liberal values of freedom of belief， freedom of speech and robust debate， we stand a chance of addressing what is at stake。
Gender identity ideology is about more than twitter storms and using the right pronouns。 In just ten years， laws， company policies， school and university curricula， sport， medical protocols， and the media have been reshaped to privilege self-declared gender identity over biological sex。
People are being sacked and silenced for attempting to understand the consequences of redefining ‘man’ and ‘woman’。 While compassion for transgender lives is well-intentioned， it is stifling much-needed inquiry into the significance of our bodies， particularly with regard to women’s rights， fairness in sport， same sex attraction and children’s development。
If we recommit to our liberal values of freedom of belief， freedom of speech and robust debate， we stand a chance of addressing what is at stake。
Reviews
Kristal Armendariz
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I enjoyed the book， especially the sections on mapped pictures and spark lines。 The section on PowerPoint surprised me。 I was happy to find someone who despises it as much as I do！ The book as a whole was somewhat disjointed。 Perhaps reading a section at a time with breaks in between would be better （I read it in one sitting）。
Annie Garvey
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Reading this book made me feel really dumb。
Neil
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https://blog。codinghorror。com/recomme。。。 https://blog。codinghorror。com/recomme。。。 。。。more
Serge
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Ok on its own， but contributes little new content or ideas if you've read his other books。 Prepare for more irrelevant art opinions than ever - and a separate section of just Tufte's modern sculptures because self-promotion。 Ok on its own， but contributes little new content or ideas if you've read his other books。 Prepare for more irrelevant art opinions than ever - and a separate section of just Tufte's modern sculptures because self-promotion。 。。。more
Danièle
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Didn't know what to do with this book by the end; it's not a coherent set of ideas。 It has some great stuff， as indeed much of Tufte's work has。 I loved the first chapter and some of the stuff about art and perspective - though it wasn't what I was expecting from the book。 But then it bounces around talking about sparklines （of which there is also a great deal in Tufte's first book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information）， how awful Powerpoint is， and ending up with a random comment on ho Didn't know what to do with this book by the end; it's not a coherent set of ideas。 It has some great stuff， as indeed much of Tufte's work has。 I loved the first chapter and some of the stuff about art and perspective - though it wasn't what I was expecting from the book。 But then it bounces around talking about sparklines （of which there is also a great deal in Tufte's first book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information）， how awful Powerpoint is， and ending up with a random comment on how rubbish statue plinths are and a collection of photos of Tufte's own sculptures。 I mean， why？In the introduction， Tufte includes a self-congratulatory little paragraph on how great self publishing is， as you're not constrained by other people's opinions。 As a former editor （biased， I know）， I suggest that other people's opinions can be pretty useful if you're trying to produce a book that other people actually want to read， rather than one that merely fulfils your own desire to set out a market stall of all the cool things you think and know。 I still enjoyed bits of it - Tufte has some interesting things to say - but this doesn't work as anything more than a miscellany。 。。。more
Gabriel Pinkus
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“The English language。。。 becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish， but the slovenliness of our languages makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts。” - George Orwell“。。。 reality must take precedence over public relations， for Nature cannot be fooled。” - Richard Feynman“Pitching out corrupts within” - Edward Tufte on organizational public relations“PowerPoint allows speakers to pretend that they are giving a real talk， and audiences to pretend that they are listening。” - “The English language。。。 becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish， but the slovenliness of our languages makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts。” - George Orwell“。。。 reality must take precedence over public relations， for Nature cannot be fooled。” - Richard Feynman“Pitching out corrupts within” - Edward Tufte on organizational public relations“PowerPoint allows speakers to pretend that they are giving a real talk， and audiences to pretend that they are listening。” - Edward Tufte 。。。more
Eric
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Tufte does tend to repeat himself across the canon， which I don't really mind so much necessarily since I always have this anxiety when I read about whether or not I really grasped what was being communicated。I think what I most want to see is a Tufte megaindex that curates the canon and highlights the best place to go for various topics， e。g。 Beautiful Evidence for sparklines， Visual Explanations for small multiples， Envisioning Information for managing colour。I actually like Tufte's grumpy ran Tufte does tend to repeat himself across the canon， which I don't really mind so much necessarily since I always have this anxiety when I read about whether or not I really grasped what was being communicated。I think what I most want to see is a Tufte megaindex that curates the canon and highlights the best place to go for various topics， e。g。 Beautiful Evidence for sparklines， Visual Explanations for small multiples， Envisioning Information for managing colour。I actually like Tufte's grumpy ranting about things like PowerPoint。 Seems to be a core idea of fidelity to information， quality of thought， etc。 Scratching madly at it from various angles 。。。more
Alec Mori
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Another excellent Tufte work， driving home guiding simple visualization principles with gorgeous， forthright imagery。
Mythreyi
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Absolute surprise。 I knew of Tufte's reputation and yet unprepared for how big an exploration this book will turn out to be。 Beautiful work of data and analysis。And his damning critique of PowerPoint is just a cherry on top。 Equal parts thought provoking and hilarious Absolute surprise。 I knew of Tufte's reputation and yet unprepared for how big an exploration this book will turn out to be。 Beautiful work of data and analysis。And his damning critique of PowerPoint is just a cherry on top。 Equal parts thought provoking and hilarious 。。。more
Rahat Ahmed
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this entire book is a backdoor for Tufte to rant about how PowerPoint is making us stupid
Christian
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Another beautiful Tufte book and definitely worth skimming。 But overall it’s hard to figure out its unique place amongst his other three。 If you haven’t read any of his others， this will be better received， but if you have， you won’t find much new。
Sten Vesterli
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Our ever-increasing hoards of data provide less and less knowledge。 Edward Tufte， "the da Vinci of data，" shows how to present data in a way that allows the human brain to understand details and achieve insight。 This is another beautifully illustrated book with many amazing examples - including a foldout with Minard's famous illustration of Napoleon's ill-fated Russian campaign。 Everybody wanting to use PowerPoint should be required to read the scathing chapter "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint Our ever-increasing hoards of data provide less and less knowledge。 Edward Tufte， "the da Vinci of data，" shows how to present data in a way that allows the human brain to understand details and achieve insight。 This is another beautifully illustrated book with many amazing examples - including a foldout with Minard's famous illustration of Napoleon's ill-fated Russian campaign。 Everybody wanting to use PowerPoint should be required to read the scathing chapter "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" before being allowed to produce another presentation。 Highly recommended。 。。。more
Poshi Getoshi
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You’ll never look at the world and especially represented world the same way again after reading this book。 But it has an antagonistic language that gets in the way while reading。
Manjeet
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One of the Best book about visualizations by none other than Mr Tufte
Coop Williams
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A good follow-up to reading 'The Display of Quantitative Information'。 It's much less focused on solid rules of thumb and more meditative。 A good follow-up to reading 'The Display of Quantitative Information'。 It's much less focused on solid rules of thumb and more meditative。 。。。more
Carlos Úbeda
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Del mismo modo que hay que reconocer la inconmensurable labor de Edward Tufte en todo lo relativo a la puesta en valor de una apropiada visualización de datos， hay que señalar su libro más reciente como un trabajo falto de foco y algo pesado。 En muchas ocasiones reutiliza muchos -demasiados- ejemplos de sus anteriores publicaciones， sus nuevos temas son un tanto peregrinos y caprichosos， su característico elegante lenguaje se muestra farragoso y hasta su actitud se vuelve altiva y prepotente。 Co Del mismo modo que hay que reconocer la inconmensurable labor de Edward Tufte en todo lo relativo a la puesta en valor de una apropiada visualización de datos， hay que señalar su libro más reciente como un trabajo falto de foco y algo pesado。 En muchas ocasiones reutiliza muchos -demasiados- ejemplos de sus anteriores publicaciones， sus nuevos temas son un tanto peregrinos y caprichosos， su característico elegante lenguaje se muestra farragoso y hasta su actitud se vuelve altiva y prepotente。 Con todo， hay muchos detalles y reflexiones interesantes， así como ejemplos maravillosos， empezando por el propio libro， bellísimo como siempre。 。。。more
Ash
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p9Evidence presentations should be created in accord with the common analytical tasks at hand， which usually involve understanding causality， making multivariate comparisons， examining relevant evidence， and assessing the credibility of evidence and conclusions。 Thus the principles of evidence display are derived from the universal principles of analytical thinking - and not from local customs， intellectual fashions， consumer convenience， marketing， or what the technologies of display happen to p9Evidence presentations should be created in accord with the common analytical tasks at hand， which usually involve understanding causality， making multivariate comparisons， examining relevant evidence， and assessing the credibility of evidence and conclusions。 Thus the principles of evidence display are derived from the universal principles of analytical thinking - and not from local customs， intellectual fashions， consumer convenience， marketing， or what the technologies of display happen to make available。Making an evidence presentation is a moral act as well as an intellectual activity。 To maintain standards of quality， relevance， and integrity for evidence， consumers of presentations should insist that presenters be held intellectually and ethically responsible for what they show and tell。 Thus consuming a presentation is also an intellectual and a moral activity。p31Similar pseudo-explanations arise in the statistical analysis of growth data， where one model appears to fit many varieties of data， at least in the eyes of those researchers already convinced。p45Well-designed and thoughtfully mapped pictures combine the direct visual evidence of images with the power of diagrams: Image's representational， local， specific， realistic， unique， detailed qualities; Diagram's contextualizing， abstracting， focusing， explanatory qualities。Most explanatory and evidential images （presented in scientific research， newspapers， textbooks， technical manuals， legal proceedings， engineering reports， and the like） should be mapped， placed in an appropriate context for comparison， and located on the universal grid of measurement。Mappings often represent an explanatory theory applied to the visual evidence。 Therefore the standards of what constitutes a credible account also apply to mappings。Mappings help tell why the image matters。p47These little data lines， because of their active quality over time， are named sparklines - small， high-resolution graphics usually embedded in a full context of words， numbers， images。 Sparklines are datawords: data-intense， design-simple， word-sized graphicsp48Words visually present both an overall shape and letter-by-letter detail; since most readers have seen the word previously， the visual task is usually one of quick recognition。 Sparklines present an overall shape and aggregate pattern along with plenty of local detail。 Sparklines are read the same way as words， although much more carefully and slowly。p50The idea is to be approximately right rather than exactly wrong。Tables sometimes reinforce recency bias by showing only current levels or recent changes; sparklines improve the attention span of tables。p55Instead of simply piles of summary numbers in conventional tables， these sparkline-tables depict game-by-game records。 Sparklines can narrate on-going results in detail for any process producing sequential binary outcomes。p60In general， statistical graphics should be moderately greater in length than in height。Variations in slope are best detected when the slopes are around 45 degrees， uphill or downhill。 To put this idea informally， aspect ratios should be such that time-series graphics tend toward a "lumpy" profile rather than a spiky profile or a flat profile。p61A good system for evidence display should be centered on evidence， not on a collection of application programs each devoted to a single mode of information。 Rather than wandering around a bureaucracy of operating systems and applications， analysts should work entirely with evidence-documents。。。why should the intellectual architecture of our reports and our evidence reflect the chaos of software bureaucracies producing those reports？p62Areas surrounding data-lines may generate unintentional optical clutter。 Strong frames produce melodramatic but content-diminishing visual effects。。。a good way to assess a display for unintentional optical clutter is to ask "Do the prominent visual effects convey relevant content？" In the exhibits above earning the unfortunate X， the most prominent visual effect is usually the clutter produced by activated negative space。p63Sparklines vastly increase the amount of data within our eyespan and intensify statistical graphics up to the everyday routine capabilities of the human eye-brain system for reasoning about visual evidence， seeing distinctions， and making comparisons。。。providing a straightforward and contextual look at intense evidence， sparkline graphics give us some chance to be approximately right rather than exactly wrong。p79。。。clunky boxes， cartoony arrows， amateur typography， and colorful chartjunk degrade diagrams。 If your display looks like a knock-off from a corporate annual report or a PowerPoint pitch， start over。Designs for analytical diagrams should be clear， efficient， undecorated， maplike; the content should be intense， explanatory， evidential， maplike。 The metaphor is the map， not stupidity。p80。。。this bond between verbal and nonverbal evidence has sometimes come undone in the process of publishing， as the assorted technologies of reproduction and presentation have segregated information by the accident of its mode of production。p88If you look after truth and goodness，Beauty looks after herselfp111For Newton's Optics， bureaucracies of presentation and mechanical reproduction corrupted the understanding of the content。 You're lucky if they don't。p1211 Clutter is a failure of design， not an attribute of information。 2 Visual problems should not be fixed by reducing content-resolution （such as， for example， discarding words that label data）。 3 Instead， fix the design。p129Those 6 dimensions are shown with distinct clarity。 There is no instruction manual， nor a jargon fog about a spatial-temporal hyper-space focus group executive dashboard web-based keystone methodology。 Instead it is War and Peace as told by a visual Tolstoy。p130The only thing that is 2-dimensional about evidence is the physical flatland of paper and computer screen。 Flatlandy technologies of display encourage flatlandy thinking。p132Publicly attributed authorship indicates to readers that someone is taking responsibility for the analysis; conversely。 the absence of names signals an evasion of responsibility。。。people may do better work when they receive public acknowledgment and take public responsibility for their work。p133In business and financial displays， the common errors and lies involve corrupt measurement scales: absence of labels， undefined or imprecise series， inflated rather than inflation-adjusted monetary units， and time-shifting of data （such as the notorious premature revenue recognition）。p136Analytical presentations ultimately stand or fall depending on the quality， relevance， and integrity of their content。[This] principle points to priorities in analytical design work: this is a content-drive craft， to be evaluated by its success in assisting thinking about the substance。p141Making a presentation is a moral act as well as an intellectual activity。 The use of corrupt manipulations and blatant rhetorical ploys in a report or presentation - outright lying， flagwaving， personal attacks， setting up phony alternatives， misdirection， jargon-mongering， evading key issues， feigning disinterested objectivity， willful misunderstanding of other points of view - suggests that the presenter lacks both credibility and evidence。 To maintain standards of quality， relevance， and integrity for evidence， consumers of presentations should insist that the presenters be held intellectually and ethically responsible for what they show and tell。 Thus consuming a presentation is also an intellectual and a moral activity。A particular danger， then， of corrupt maneuvers is not only that they enable lying but also that they place the truth in disrepute。p142Why should we fail to be vigilant and rigorous about the quality of evidence and its presentation just because a report is part of a public dialogue， or is meant for the news media， or is from the government， or concerns an important matter？p144It is a principle that shines impartially on the just and unjust that once you have a point of view all history will back you up。p149economisting 1。 The act or process of converting limited evidence into grand claims by means of punning， multiplicity of meaning， and over-reaching。 2。 The belief or practice that empirical evidence can only confirm and never disconfirm a favored theory。 3。 Conclusions that are theory-driven， not evidence-based。 See also confirmation bias， painting with a broad brush， Iraqi weapons of mass destruction， marketing， post-modern critical theory， German meaning of "mist"。p152Charjunk flows from the premise that audiences can be charmed， distracted， or fooled by means of content-free misdirection: garish colors， designer colors， corny clip-art， generic decoration， phony dimensionality。 。。。more
Ken Lawrence
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The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint PowerPoint's convenience for some presenters is costly to the content and the audience。 These costs arise from the cognitive style characteristic of the standard default PP presentation: foreshortening of evidence and thought， low spatial resolution， an intensely hierarchical single-path structure as the model for organizing every type of content， breaking up narratives and data into slides and minimal fragments， rapid temporal sequencing of thin information rat The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint PowerPoint's convenience for some presenters is costly to the content and the audience。 These costs arise from the cognitive style characteristic of the standard default PP presentation: foreshortening of evidence and thought， low spatial resolution， an intensely hierarchical single-path structure as the model for organizing every type of content， breaking up narratives and data into slides and minimal fragments， rapid temporal sequencing of thin information rather than focused spatial analysis， conspicuous chartjunk and PP Phluff， branding of slides with logotypes， a preoccupation with format not content， incompetent designs for data graphics and tables， and a smirky commercialism that turns information into a sales pitch and presenters in marketeers。 This cognitive style harms the quality of thought for the producers and the consumers of presentations。 The segment demonstrating how PP contributed to the deaths of the Columbia space shuttle is provocative。 Decision-makers were lulled to sleep with a steady diet of bullet points。The vigorous， vaguely quantitative words， "significant" and "significantly" are used 5 times on this slide， with meanings ranging from "detectable in a perhaps irrelevant calibration case study" to "an amount of damage so that everyone dies" to "a difference of 640-fold。" None of the 5 "significants" refer to statistical significance。 I'm thinking about posting this on my company news feed:The pushy PP style tends to set up a dominance relationship between speaker and audience， as the speaker makes power points with hierarchical bullets to passive followers。 Such aggressive， stereotyped， over-managed presentations--the Great Leader up on the pedestal。。。 。。。more
James Traxler
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Such wonderful insight into how to **represent data** in the clearest and most explanatory way。Tufte is clearly a clever thinker in this area - he roots out and explains successes and failures nicely。It should be a required reading bible on subject in this day and age， where there is so much poor representation of data。I was torn over whether to give 4 or 5 stars， but in the end， I was a bit less generous with the stars here as it dragged in a few places and felt like it could have been tightene Such wonderful insight into how to **represent data** in the clearest and most explanatory way。Tufte is clearly a clever thinker in this area - he roots out and explains successes and failures nicely。It should be a required reading bible on subject in this day and age， where there is so much poor representation of data。I was torn over whether to give 4 or 5 stars， but in the end， I was a bit less generous with the stars here as it dragged in a few places and felt like it could have been tightened up。Even so， this is masterful。 。。。more
Elizabeth
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A beautiful， discombobulated mess。 It perhaps works as a reference text but it is in no way legible in providing a narrative or clear information， destroying the central argument about beautiful evidence the author is seeking to make。 Clearly self published， because who else would finance this？
Clayton Grames
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A thorough look at what visual elements help to support data and what are mere distractions from it。 There is something to be gained by anyone who has to communicate anything with more than just words。 This book has become a new standard to judge my own communication by。
Michael
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This is as brilliant as his first book。 I’ve been sending people “The Cognitive Stye of PowerPoint” for years in PDF。 It is even more persuasive in this beautifully produced book， with the companion chapter on lazy thinking more generally。 This book does not have the same razor focus of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information， but it makes up for that with a much richer and more mature theory of “visual reasoning”。 Tufte’s concept of “cognitive style” is particularly cogent。
Austin Haukinz
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One of the more bizarre reads that I’ve picked up。 Beautiful Evidence makes a serious case for better ways to present and explain data。 At times there were seemingly random stores but all had good follow through and added to the overall point。 Moral of the story， your graphs can be much better and PowerPoint isn’t as helpful as you think it is。
Kyle
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The chapter on ineffectual PowerPoint use was refreshing to see。 At the same time， the recommendation to always use technical reports instead felt misguided， and the chapter failed to consider an audience who actively doesn't want to be there。 While I can appreciate an opinionated author， this bordered on arrogance， an opinion reinforced by the inclusion of several pages of pictures of his own sculpture at the close of the book， ostensibly to show how sculpture can be a part of the landscape wit The chapter on ineffectual PowerPoint use was refreshing to see。 At the same time， the recommendation to always use technical reports instead felt misguided， and the chapter failed to consider an audience who actively doesn't want to be there。 While I can appreciate an opinionated author， this bordered on arrogance， an opinion reinforced by the inclusion of several pages of pictures of his own sculpture at the close of the book， ostensibly to show how sculpture can be a part of the landscape without a pedestal。 But some of his examples seem gratuitous: hanging bird sculptures by wires doesn't provide me much insight on how to fix the pedestal problem in sculptures which clearly need to be anchored to land。 。。。more
Sean Cunningham
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I like to go back & read the classics for inspiration。 Some good examples of what to do & what not to do re visual analytics。 Recommended。
Mark
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The fourth of Tufte's series of books on the visual display of information。 It is the most eccentric of the series and includes a moderate amount of recycled material from the previous volumes。 There is remarkable vitriol in an amount that I think you can only see in a self-published book， with an illustrated non-anonymized attack on one economics professor's book， and a prolonged attack on Microsoft Powerpoint that refers to Stalin more than once。 There are also， of course， many interesting thi The fourth of Tufte's series of books on the visual display of information。 It is the most eccentric of the series and includes a moderate amount of recycled material from the previous volumes。 There is remarkable vitriol in an amount that I think you can only see in a self-published book， with an illustrated non-anonymized attack on one economics professor's book， and a prolonged attack on Microsoft Powerpoint that refers to Stalin more than once。 There are also， of course， many interesting things， e。g。 some discussion of Conway's Law。 The book ends with a very odd criticism of some works of landscape architecture， and then photographs of some of the author's sculptures。 。。。more
Ralph N
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Beautiful book on the "art" of statistics and data visualization。 Also a great section on modern presentations and how to do PowerPoint right。 Beautiful book on the "art" of statistics and data visualization。 Also a great section on modern presentations and how to do PowerPoint right。 。。。more
Nilendu Misra
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Worth reading for comparing information density of （1） powerpoint， （2） speech， （3） printed words and （4） dense visuals alone。
Ferhat Culfaz
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Standard Tufte。 Superb！
Anh
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