1. I’m bemused by the trend to say “but it’s anecdotal”in everyday conversation. The alternative is to present some kind of statistical or data-driven analysis, but doing these justice means parsing the techniques used on that data.
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2. Which you’re not going to do in an ordinary conversation. So, in fact, the anecdote is more likely to be trustworthy than the data in this case. And why speak to each other as if you’re in a research seminar, anyway? You’re in a pub, not the Royal Society.
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3. I accept that the head of the Bank of England can’t just tell a Commons committee, “Well, there are a lot of ‘For Sale’ signs up in my area.” The answer is that saying “that’s anecdotal” is a means ot signal superior “scientific: knowledge”. When it isn’t in that context.
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