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Counterpoints: Rockefeller. Carnegie. Jobs. Several of my entrepreneur friends.
by saryant 11y ago
Counterpoints: Rockefeller. Carnegie. Jobs. Several of my entrepreneur friends.
- rosser 11y ago"The plural of anecdote is not 'data'."
- vonklaus 11y agoThis could be just as easily directed to the articles author.
- vixen99 11y agoMostly true but the singular of data (pl) is anecdote - considered as a discrete experience.
- colinmegill 11y agoBest comment response ever. It is sad this will languish here rather than be etched into a stele.
- contingencies 11y agohttp://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-anecdote-is-data-after-all.html http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-an...
- _0ffh 11y agoLet's say, counterexamples are not unbiased samples.
- kelnos 11y agoActually, it is, for a statistically significant number of anecdotes.
- dump100 11y agoIt is `Empirical`
- CmonDev 11y agoYou beat me to the "But what about [an obvious exception to the general rule and a couple of anecdotal samples]?".