In my life experience, anecdotal data always signals trends weeks, months, years before the experts catch on. I have never seen it otherwise. Whenever I talk t

In my life experience, anecdotal data always signals trends weeks, months, years before the experts catch on. I have never seen it otherwise. Whenever I talk to a range of people, they all tell me X is happening to them more often, the media take another 6+ months to report on it.