RE: Anecdotal Evidence
November 1, 2016 at 9:32 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2016 at 9:32 pm by GrandizerII.)
(November 1, 2016 at 3:27 pm)alpha male Wrote:(November 1, 2016 at 2:08 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: A) What the flying fuck does the Gettysburg address (note I corrected your capitalisation) have to do with science.
BINGO!
You're agreeing with my point and don't even realize it. There are issues which science can't, or chooses not to, study. Yet, reasonable people hold positions on such issues based on anecdotal evidence. Some of our most important life decisions are based on anecdotal evidence rather than science.
Even so, scientific evidence is always the best form of evidence regardless. And we definitely don't want to rely on pure anecdotes for claims that are extraordinary in nature.