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1491650

Anonymous Thu Sep 8 18:13:55 2016 No.1491650 [Reply] [Original]

"The plural of anecdote is not data."

What does this mean?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 18:27:03 2016 No.1491678 >>1491650 It means anecdotes are not data. Even if you have a whole bunch of anecdotes collected, it doesn't matter.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 18:28:53 2016 No.1491684 File: 840 KB, 2046x3828, 1464577444964.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1491678 Say that to the thousands of innocent blacks murdered a year..... in my simcity

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 18:32:25 2016 No.1491694 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_significance

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 8 18:43:31 2016 No.1491718 File: 201 KB, 470x595, 1448104903048.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1491684 >demolishing dilapidated looking buildings so new ones are built

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 9 11:57:14 2016 No.1492872 If three of your friends say the same thing, that doesn't make it true.