At the very least anecdotes are a place to start thinking about what data to collect. And wherever you think of it, it's established in modern debates that peop

At the very least anecdotes are a place to start thinking about what data to collect. And wherever you think of it, it's established in modern debates that people bring anecdotes as a way to motivate discussion. Maybe it's wrong without a proper statistical study, but it's what people do and have done since forever.