Timeline for Famous statistical quotations
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| Sep 3, 2015 at 16:09 | comment | added | Volker Siegel | I would think that anecdotes are fundamentally biased: They caught the attention of someone, and caused emotions that made him remember it. There is no way human attention can be statistically independent, I assume. | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 10:23 | comment | added | naught101 | @Jase: an anecdote is a chunk of information that is true, but may not be representative of the truth (i.e. it's biased toward the point that the story teller is trying to make). But that doesn't say anything about multiple anecdotes. If you could show that the biases in each anecdote in a set were independent, then they would probably cancel to some extent, allowing reliable analysis. Of course, this is a stupidly inefficient way of collecting data, and because it would be so difficult, there are no examples, because no-one has ever done it. And I was mostly just being a smart arse :D | |
| Nov 21, 2012 at 10:15 | comment | added | Jase | @naught101 Please provide an example? | |
| Nov 3, 2012 at 6:38 | comment | added | naught101 | Surely it is, as long as the anecdotes aren't sampled with bias? | |
| S Mar 17, 2011 at 10:53 | history | answered | steffen | CC BY-SA 2.5 | |
| S Mar 17, 2011 at 10:53 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki |