Jeff makes a good point but his ability to draw useful insight from anecdotes is probably a bit higher than average
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hm yeah
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now we stop asking for data we ask for experts easier to make anecdotes
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sometimes we also ask 8 yo over lunch about important issues and tweet them as they mean anything data is obsolete
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Both are useful, but the thing is that data perpetuates itself. If you start providing a vastly different result from previously, you are going to get all sorts of questions which threaten the analysts jobs. Anecdotes are not threatening but can cause you to question the data.
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it's not that the anecdotes are more often correct. it's that the people the anecdotes are resonating with are pointing to the right answer a la wisdom of the crowd
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"data" is just a way for someone to tell a very uncompelling anecdote. if the causation was there, n=1 would have sold it
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data worked because we never questioned whether it didn't
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The chain from data to the question you want to answer is too long with too many weak links, but an anecdote is at least one complete chain.
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