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Your anecdote is not data. There will always be exceptions or as Houshalter points out factors that are easy to overlook.
by driverdan 12y ago
Your anecdote is not data. There will always be exceptions or as Houshalter points out factors that are easy to overlook.
- tokenadult 12y agoDid you not finish reading my comment to see the sentence "Learning about the environmental factors is helpful, especially for understanding whole-country-scale epidemiological trends, but full understanding of the causes and treatments of allergies will have to come from studies with genetically sensitive designs"? The article kindly submitted for our discussion talks about correlational observations, that is collections of anecdotes. Anecdotes and correlational observations generate hypotheses, but it is precisely looking at exceptions, especially with experimental treatment-control designs, which will tease out what environmental factors are causative and what factors are sheer coincidence.