Through anecdotes, data, and insights delivered casually but unflinchingly, "The Organization Man" slow-boils with the complaint that the Protestant Ethic was losing ground to the Social Ethic.
I know, one example — but the plural of anecdote is data.
Research into the mindsets of anti-vaccination campaigners suggests that they tend to exhibit traits such as conspiratorial thinking, reasoning flaws, a reliance on anecdote over data and low cognitive complexity in thinking patterns.
After all, both camps tend to exaggerate their powers, and to fall prey to the lure of the anecdote, rejecting data and studies that do not fit what they know must be true.
"The plural of anecdote is data". Raymond Wolfinger (political scientist, 1931–).
In the sequence Flotsam, Morrison slows the pace to arrange a mosaic of rumours, memories, anecdotes, historical data, fauna and flora.
But rigorous studies that can transform the anecdotes into data are scarce: Colorado, one of 23 states (along with the District of Columbia) where medical marijuana is legal for adults, recently greenlighted up to $8.4 million in research grants on the drug, including studies in pediatric epilepsy and pediatric brain tumors.
But with every day that the federal government remains closed, the longer the Obama administration will have to fix the glitches and compile lots of anecdotes and data to show how well things are going.
Despite the importance of health workers' perceptions in implementing task shifting, this area is inadequately addressed by the current research, which provides more anecdotes than data on stakeholder perceptions.
A key truism in medical research is that the plural of anecdote is not data.
