All the Law curriculum teaches you about data is how to protect your own data from Evil. Meanwhile the general consensus is that stories are more influential than data. This has been demonstrated a number of times, including 1980 at the University of Michigan. More recent research in a 2007 study conducted at Carnegie Mellon University found that donors explicitly give more to story-only appeals compared to data-only appeals. Despite this, whilst working subsequently as a PR manager I experienced that people were obsessed with my law background, and decided that the most exciting thing for me to do would be to draft the data protection sheet for customers.

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