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“Plural of anecdote is data” is meant to be tongue-in-cheek. Actual data is sampled randomly. Anecdotes very much are not.
by acchow 1y ago
“Plural of anecdote is data” is meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
Actual data is sampled randomly. Anecdotes very much are not.
- 9rx 1y ago> “Plural of anecdote is data” is meant to be tongue-in-cheek. To be fair, possibly because of this tongue-in-cheek statement, anecdote is sometimes used in place of datum and not as anecdote is usually defined.