With enough anecdotal evidence, you get statistics.

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With enough anecdotal evidence, you get statistics.

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  1. cheesyshop Avatar

    True. The adage that the plural of anecdote is not data is completely wrong. Where people go wrong though, is thinking that a small sampling gives accurate data.

  2. Inversalis Avatar

    Only once you reach like 95% of the population, until then sampling bias will still cause problems. Ig depending on how precise you want to be.

  3. adelwolf Avatar

    I learned that enough anecdotes constitutes anecdata.

  4. Ashamed-Sky4079 Avatar

    Stats has nothing to do with the type of evidence. Stats is only what can be assumed from the whole from a sample.

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  6. TacoVampir3 Avatar

    Statistics are just fancy numbers that come from a good story! I mean, if my grandma says she makes the best cookies in town, who needs a survey.

  7. Jonas_Expresser Avatar

    With something happening an amount of times, you will see the possibilities of something imagined become real

  8. Palpitation-Itchy Avatar

    You get a very specific statistic only, because it’s not randomised