I 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,

I 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.