anecdata

An ad hoc portmanteau for anecdotal evidence that is used as data in an attempt to prove a hypothesis.

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Of course, these stories of success are anecdotes, not anecdata, and very often don't reveal the complex netting of social capital that has supported their achievements.

Of mice and birds: tales of the outliers

Data from these and other sources enables lawyers to make data-driven decisions that were previously based on what I call "anecdata."

Legal Analytics, Data-Centric Lawyering and Early Case Strategy

(275) Empirical and "anecdata" indicating that most cadets identify as cadet first and sex second may support the utilization of this coping strategy at VMI.

The solidarity paradox

"anecdata" is grounded on the strong cultural lineage of the

Adaptive strategies for the future of legal education

(32) Even when deliberation occurs in this large group context, it is unlikely to increase social welfare, particularly when media campaigns, peppered with "anecdata," (33) bombard and influence the voters.

The emperor's new clothes: exposing the failures of regulating land use through the ballot box

(52) Christopher Slobogin, Doubts About Daubert: Psychiatric Anecdata as a Case Study, 57 WASH.

State intentions and the law of punishment

Although Ken and Jewell prove it can be done, they are but one data point--what demographers contemptuously dismiss as "anecdata." But Edin and Kefalas don't really improve on this--their project is anecdata writ large.

Too few good men

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