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prettygoodwordanecdata (an-ik-DAY-tuh, an-ik-DAT-uh, an-ik-DAH-tuh) - n., anecdotal evidence used as factual data.
With all the problems of (non-)controls for bias that implies. Those few things you happen to know aren't all that useful for proving anything. Coined in the 1980s (supposedly: the first hard citation I'm finding, though, is from 1992) from a blend of anecdote + data.
---L.
With all the problems of (non-)controls for bias that implies. Those few things you happen to know aren't all that useful for proving anything. Coined in the 1980s (supposedly: the first hard citation I'm finding, though, is from 1992) from a blend of anecdote + data.
---L.
