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Weather can be due to climate, and time series are composed of anecdotes.

• lysace 6mo ago
  Key words: can be Longer time series are indeed composed of many samples/anecdotes.
• tshaddox 6mo ago
  > time series are composed of anecdotes This is incorrect, and is a very common misunderstanding of what the term "anecdote" means and what the actual problem with anecdotal data is. The dichotomy is between "anecdotal evidence" and "scientific evidence," and the important distinction is not that the latter simply has more data points than the former. The critical distinction is about the methodology used to gather the data, not merely the number of data points gathered.
  • BobbyJo 6mo ago
    I think you are inverting things. Not all anecdotes are scientific data points, but all scientific data points are anecdotes in isolation.
    • robocat 6mo ago
      Science isn't only frequentist
    • tshaddox 6mo ago
      No, that's precisely the common misconception that I'm referring to.