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Anecdotes are not data.

• Mikeb85 13y ago
  No, they're not. Alot of data is flawed though, based on assumptions that usually aren't true... Go on the ground yourself and see what makes a difference though. You can't sit on your computer in a 1st world country and think you know what happens in the 3rd world...
  • LeeHunter 13y ago
    I spent a year living in a third world country but somehow it failed to make me an expert on international aid and development.
• dnautics 13y ago
  that's actually incorrect. The correct quote is "the plural of anecdote is data". http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-anecdote-is-data-after-all.html http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-an... I take the opposite view of this statistician, because it reminds us that NO data are free of some level of collection bias. Keep in mind I'm an experimentalist, and not a data analyst.