"and he said...") your long suffering partner will be ready to tell an
anecdote of her own.
A British newspaper, which had reported the
anecdote, interpreted Pietersen's response as showing lack of loyalty towards England since he is born in South Africa.
The main challenge in using vicarious reinforcement to increase the chances of assignment completion is finding appropriate models, whose stories therapists can present in an
anecdote. Sources of useful
anecdotes include anyone who has carried out a similar task before and benefitted.
lessons well: Deny abuse; smear kids who report problems as drug addicts, liars, and manipulators; insist that the media "balance" negative stories with positive
anecdotes; and when the charges begin to stick and the press and regulators have thoroughly discredited a program, simply change its name and reopen, changing location only if necessary.
Jazz
Anecdotes allows the musicians to speak unabashedly, even with pride about their contributions to twentieth-century American music.
In this, the Age of Google, pretty much anyone could quickly compile a decent mishmash of
anecdotes, after all.
Just another quick quip and he's on to another
anecdote.
Are we dramatizing an
anecdote or passing along a bit of hearsay?
It is tempting to reply with even more
anecdotes of successful heroes, but arguing by
anecdote is not, ultimately, a convincing approach.
Back when I worked as a researcher at RAND, the man in the office next to mine put up a large sign that stated, "
Anecdote is the opposite of evidence." OK, only a research geek would actually stick that up on their wall.
All this was fairly routine for the Elizabethans in Ireland; what has made Gilbert famous among sixteenth-century Irish historians is a short
anecdote rehearsed of him by one of his soldiers, the poet Thomas Churchyard.