anecdotal

Here, have a little bit of anecdotal evidence instead. Enough of that?

People a little more sophisticated think: Hey, this is anecdotal evidence! Yeah, we know that.

In fact, almost everything in the post is anecdotal or subjective.

So it is dangerous to draw conclusions based on anecdotal evidence.

If there's a smoking gun for IBM great, fine $$$$$$$ IBM. But my personal anecdotal experience is that the companies I've worked for pay the same for HB-1 vs local. They don't look at it as trying to find cheap employees.

Is there any non-anecdotal evidence that marketing has anywhere near the power this article ascribes to it? I hear this a lot lately.

The evidence purely anecdotal. Please be careful in reading things like this that you do not immediately form a blind belief or justification.

These old CF developers are, in my anecdotal experience, the kind people that learned one type of development and stuck with it for a long, long time. They've not really improved their skill sets beyond what was popular practice when they first learned Cold Fusion.

I can only provide anecdotal evidence. I come from a poor family and studied in India in a government university by paying $20/year.

Does that entire paragraph not just objectify the wife and establish differences between the sexes based on anecdotal experience? >"If you are a man, chances are your wife does more to build the business than you ever do."

That strikes me as persuasive anecdotal evidence of what happens when a tech titan feels threatened by poaching that they cannot resolve by a gentlemen's agreement. My recollection for the timing of those opening salvoes in the talent war was mid-2010.

I want to know because anyone who would vote money on an anecdotal experience like this is an idiot. Your story is interesting, but only when it sticks to the parts about you rushing into an investment without due consideration or self-protection.

People have a tendency to believe anything that someone in a lab coat says, especially if it supports their point of view or anecdotal experience. In many cases the people who do the research present it with few qualifications while not standing behind assumed implications.

All I see is a "conversion" expert trumpeting anecdotal and gut opinions, without any supporting data one way or the other. I'm not saying he is necessarily wrong, but this is an extremely broad generalization that is not backed up with any evidence in the post itself.

I don't care about karma, but to the extent anyone else cares about their karma relative to folks on the leaderboard, my anecdotal single-point observation is that winners seem to be winning at the moment.

The anecdotal cultural 'explanations' here are a little ridiculous without some real data to reference. > Logographic-based languages...

For example, when something is submitted to HN, from my anecdotal observation it will typically get something like 5-10 simultaneous visitors from the new page. If it gets a minimum critical mass of votes to hit the front page, this will increase immediately to something like 50-100 simultaneous viewers and increase from there.

Even with your anecdotal assertions, do you really, really expect us to believe that you're unaware of the number of parents in this country who home-school their kids largely if not solely to prevent access to such dreaded concepts as, oh... .

In my anecdotal experience, companies put far too much emphasis on finding unicorns that can solve problems on a whiteboard than they do on finding above-average developers that have a strong work ethic, can learn fast, and have shipped something. As it stands, it seems the only people these companies hire are notable SV personalities, or people that excel at the formal interview format.

TFA is being a bit sensationalist and anecdotal about rhabdo being crossfit's "dirty little secret." To add another anecdote into the fire, everyone I know that does crossfit knows what rhabdo is, and rhabdo is mentioned in beginner classes multiple times; not only what it is, but the symptoms, what to do when you get it, and how, if left untreated, myoglobinuria can lead to acute renal failure and death.

Seriously, anecdotal fresh-out-of-school salaries for talented CS people are near $100k. Anecdotal fresh-out-of-school salaries for talented English majors are near...