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I love this quote: "the plural of anecdote is not data"
by jwcrux 10y ago
I love this quote: "the plural of anecdote is not data"
- braythwayt 10y agoI first heard it from Alan Armstrong, CEO of Eigenworks.
- matt4077 10y agoIt's quite old and I like to say: If you think about it, it actually is.
- laughinghan 10y agoWhile that version is much more popular, it's a mutation of the original quote which actually stated the exact opposite: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-anecdote-is-data-after-all.html http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-an...
- aidenn0 10y agoI dislike it because it is counterfactual. Each anecdote is a datum. The plural of anecdotes is non-experimental data, but data nonetheless.