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the plural of anecdote is not data - some games work, some games don't. i've had both successes and failures with older games.

• loup-vaillant 13y ago
  > the plural of anecdote is not data Yes it is. Biased, self selected, very hard to exploit. But it's still data. If you know the biases and counter them (for instance by asking people directly), you could even gather something useful.
  • foxhill 13y ago
    > If you know the biases.. indeed. > for instance by asking people directly.. a terrible way of accounting for bias. people are often unaware of the bias they impart on what they say.
    • loup-vaillant 13y ago
      Of course. Selective memory would still be a problem, for instance. But you would get rid of self selection. Though if you just ask your friends, you will have another kind of selection bias…