Anecdotes represent observations and observations represent a type of data. Since anecdotes don’t typically occur under controlled conditions they represent relatively weak data but they can confirm hypotheses. We rely on anecdotal info in biological studies all the time
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your anecdotes are a very weak form of evidence YOUR anecdotes are a very weak form of evidence your ANECDOTES are a very weak form of evidence...
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Evidence by anecdote meets no acceptable standard that could be considered scientific evidence. I agree anecdote can be hypothesis generating.
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This is like those folks who go around "correlation is not causation" "correlation is not causation" when one is actually discussing mechanisms of causation behind the correlation. It's like they learned only that much, and they're armed with wisdom.
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