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The plural of anecdote is not data.

• abduhl 13y ago
  The plural of anecdote is data. Edit: I suppose I should post something useful here rather than just a snark reply to someone's snark reply. Anecdotes represent distinct points of data and, therefore, a bunch of anecdotes would then be a collection of data.
  • summerdown2 13y ago
    I'm not sure that's correct. To become useful for science, you also need to put in a lot of work to correct for bias, etc. Having a plural number of anecdotes all with sample bias is not necessarily data and any attempt to create a correlation will run into problems.
  • mslate 13y ago
    The plural of anecdote is anecdotes. The plural of datum is data. Datum != anecdote. Data != anecdotes. QED.