They collection the evidence by asking questions of the study participants. Those answers are anecdotal. Even if done in a planned and repeatable fashion, you cannot call evidence collected by asking questions anything else.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I study is an analytical outcome of a set of evidence collected in a > planned and repeatable fashion. The actual collection of evidence may be > observational or it may be automated and entirely mechanistically > quantitative. The most important part of a study, however, is that it is > planned ahead of time and then repeatable procedures are followed. > Anecdotal evidence, on the other hand, is almost always provided after the > collection of said evidence, with no planning before hand, and under > conditions that are not repeatable. > > Judah > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Yes. A study is a collection of anecdotal evidence, even if the >> anecdote is nothing more than the description of what is observed by >> those doing the study. >> >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> >> wrote >> > >> > Each person on this list who has disagreed with the study has given >> > anecdotal personal experience. Somewhere there is a study that tests the >> > ability to distinguish a study from anecdotal evidence. :) >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371815 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
