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Your anecdotal Chinese mother is more extreme than my anecdotal Chinese mothers. Unfortunate.
by gaoshan 16y ago
Your anecdotal Chinese mother is more extreme than my anecdotal Chinese mothers. Unfortunate.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoIts not anecdotal if it was His mother. Not hearsay anyway.
- gaoshan 16y agoAnecdotal means "Not necessarily true or reliable, because based on personal accounts rather than facts or research" so the claim that it his mother is, itself, anecdotal. Kind of inherent in casual, internet conversation... hard to avoid.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoHm. Pedantically, his experience with his mother isn't Based on personal accounts, it is his personal experience. So to him anyway it wasn't anecdotal. But to everybody else, sure. Like all reported empirical evidence.