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favourite line from the article - "the plural of anecdote is data" nice.
by Tomrn 10y ago
favourite line from the article -
"the plural of anecdote is data"
nice.
- leephillips 10y agoYes, very clever - but also, by now, a venerable quip.
- afandian 10y agoI was going to reply "you realise that 'the plural of anecdote is not data' is the usual phrasing" so I spent a few seconds searching. According to this blog, the original doesn't include the 'not': http://quotesjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-plural-of-anecdote-is-not-data.html http://quotesjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-plural-of-an... Funny how subverted phrases can supplant the original.