Anecdotal Quotes
Weighing stories against real evidence
These Anecdotal quotes question how much personal Accounts and informal surveys should shape what we assume to be true, from claims about marriage happiness to political predictions.
My prediction for the 2016 race was based on a variety of observational and anecdotal evidence. I listened to Democrats, Republicans and independents across the U.S. I talked to people who consider themselves apolitical.
There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because no one is ever going to seem as funny in a normal conversation as compared to when they're...
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I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.
Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from...
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This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I'm black but because...
I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking friends returned from the place with the standard anecdotal combo of nirvanic epiphany and toilet...
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Even light-hearted worries, like search engines making patients think they're dying, get filed here as evidence we shouldn't fully Believe without more than one story.
