anecdata

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

References in periodicals archive ?

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

33) Anecdata are "these horror stories over which we try to construct theories about how something is or is not working.

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

CITE

Site: Follow: Share:

Open / Close