Anecdotal Evidence

[The Grand Nudger]

What reason is that?

The same as it's been for pages and pages.  Anecdotes are evidence, in the loosest sense of the word, only of one persons subjective experience of some x that may or may not have occurred, and..if it did occur, may or may not have occurred as described.  It's even looser for each of your examples, which, themselves, refer to subjective measures -of- subjective experiences.  X stresses out bill and jane, so they say (though, honestly, it;s probably not their stress anecdotes that give away their stressful state if we were being completely honest).  So what, x -doesn't- stress me out.  Conversely, some thing that bill and jane say is super fun might stress the shit out of me.  

Are you saying that multiple anecdotes become empirical evidence?

if you're discussing anecdotes of self reporting stress, ofc they are, but of what? Amusingly,  in reference to one of your other examples, the relative stress of children..we have a fun bit of data. You should look up the interesting difference between what people self report regarding children and stress on a daily scale and on a yearly scale.  It seems that we tell ourselves two entirely contradictory stories about that...and ofc, we tell those contradictory stories to others or we wouldn't have such a wonderful case example of the uselessness of anecdotal evidence that;s so exceedingly specific to the sorts of examples you've decided to offer.

No, that's why anecdotal evidence is imperfect. It isn't useless. Most people don't have the time to park outside a house they're looking at all night for a few days to check the noise level. Most people don't knock on potential neighbors' doors and invite themselves in for dinner. Testimony from neighbors is about the only way you'll get such info. It might not be perfect. It's better than nothing.

All it can tell you is whether or not the noise level exceeds that persons threshold for noisy, which is an unknown threshold to you, and probably not the same threshold.  Useless.  I mean, if you want to use it by mounding up garbage in support of a point you've conceded...I guess there's that....but......personally, I wouldn't buy a slapchop based on a testimonial and here you are telling us you bought a house.

See above - no, I didn't wander the neighborhood at nights checking for noise and crime. Like most people, I was at the house on a few weekend afternoons.

There are far easier ways to check for those things.  A few weekends was better data than all of the anecdotal evidence you were offered.  Something tells me that if those few weekends empirical observations didn't line up, you'd have decided the anecdotal data was useless..seeing as how you base your weight of anecdote upon empirical observations just as surely as you base your important life decisions on empirical evidence.

What's the -actual- evidence regarding the gettysburg address, or trump's possibly assaulting women in the past?

Are those important life decisions?  For whom? Are you under the impression that no evidence, other than anecdotal evidence...exists for either? Which one?