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For serious scientific studies, anecdotal data is not useful. For product fit, the experiences and feedback from your target audience are _extremely_ "relevant
by aerovistae 6y ago
For serious scientific studies, anecdotal data is not useful.
For product fit, the experiences and feedback from your target audience are _extremely_ "relevant in the grand scheme of things." If your target audience is saying "I literally don't know anyone who would want to use this," yeah, that's relevant.
Unless you're aiming to imply that me and my friend group and greater gaming community are the exception and in fact the majority of young people use facebook, in which case....lol.
My "anecdotal experience" is interacting with dozens of gaming communities which mysteriously all link to subreddits and discords and twitches and never, ever a facebook group. That's not very anecdotal when these are communities of tens and hundreds of thousands of people.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> For serious scientific studies, anecdotal data is not useful. This is still wrong; anecdotal data is what motivates studies in the first place. What anecdotal data isn't is a conclusion.
- aerovistae 6y agoGood point!
- scarface74 6y agoUnless you're aiming to imply that me and my friend group and greater gaming community are the exception and in fact the majority of young people use facebook, in which case....lol. Have you done a statistically relevant survey of what the “majority of young people do”? As a reference, if you go to r/cscareerquestions you would swear that no other company exists for graduating software engineers but the big 5 tech companies and if you don’t spend every minute “learning LeetCode to work for a FAANG” your life is over and you might as well kill yourself.