anecdotic

So it’s clearly not an anecdotic piece of equipment. They cost much less than a tank or an artillery piece, so it would make sense to use them most times you shoot at those.

My anecdotic experience is that 9 out of 10 female engineers are solid, productive members of society and 1 out of 10 is marginal. The male side is much worse.

In the grand scheme of things, even twitter is anecdotic as only a small and marginal fraction of internet users are using twitter. It makes the remark above even more idiotic.

Take an anecdotic example: A guy doing basketball professionally for years, and now requiring knee surgery because his knee is just destroyed. I think it's the focus on extreme athletic performance that encourages people to "fuck up their bodies".

There is an anecdotic evidence that bad trips on first intake are more frequent with lower doses of psychedelics than higher. So it's very possible that those therapeutic sessions will be mind-shattering experiences and not like going to discotheque with friends.

> My anecdotic experience HN has to stop complaining about people's experiences that they don't like by crying "anectdotes", or "anectdata is not data". If someone says that it is their experience then that's it, take it for what it is rather than demanding that they should start peer-reviewing their life.

Funny how differently the grandparent's anecdotic but positive comment and this anecdotic but negative comment are treated.

Qualitative / anecdotic: "look at this compiler doing something unexpected" vs." look at this optimizing compiler's transformation that would be impossible without UB".

Big rocks as currency is purely anecdotic. Of course, if you're in the desert and you're thirsty, a bottle of water has more value to you than all the gold in the world, but that doesn't change the fact that through millennia people has seen gold as something valuable that it's not tied to an economy, a country, an empire or even a culture despite de Incas.

Oh, and it must be even more lonely, down in that rabbit hole where everything is scammy, consultantware, bullshit and anecdotic in comparison with your huge experience of everything. I just wish you could enlighten us with better alternatives and constructive criticism instead of just bashing everything for the sake of it.

Behavioural economists and sociologists have gone beyond the anecdotic and systematically studied the issues, and have come up with surprising answers. Capturing the ‘collective’ wisdom best solves cognitive problems.

More generally, there’s a lot of anecdotic evidence between problematic behaviour and low-level spelling details: one that is apparently better documented now is a correlation between insurance fraud and whether you capitalise properly the name of your employer on registration form.

Explaining that the anecdotal big purchase on version A is actually anecdotic, and that you need to consider the distribution, escalation slope, rhythm of purchases… all that is very difficult, especially with simple tools around like this one that make it sound like such tests are actually simple and can work for any level of audience. Having a decent separation of expected LTV on a four-pronged A/B/C/D test, especially when your conversion rate is around 1% and your re-purchase well under 20%… that’s a challenge that requires millions of users for months.

However, my humble anecdotic evidence suggests that most everyday Apple users are Microsoft converts and they do have very strong feelings associated with Microsoft brand, but truth be told, MS has nothing to do with their painful past experiences: crappy 3rd party Windows products pre-infected with adware, performance-killing pre-installed anti-viruses, flimsy and cheap hardware from eMachines and the likes, etc.