At 12:07 PM -0800 3/19/02, Harry Avis wrote: >I seem to be unable to grasp the subtlety of this discussion. I thought that >the meaining of the original quote was to point out that anecdotes are >subjective and based on the speaker's personal experience. Data are more >objective measures that can be replicated, given the same conditions. One >can read or listen to anecdotes and gather data from the content. Others >reading or listening to the same anecdotes would obtain much the same data. >The point of the expression, I would have thought, is that simply collecting >anecdotes about an event is not data in the statistical sense (unless of >course one is collecting data on the number of existing anecdotes. Data can >be used to verify or contradict hypotheses. A collection of anecdotes is >simply a collection of anecdotes.
Exactly! You're making it much too simple ;-) * PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Psychology Dept Minnesota State University, Mankato * * 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 * * http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html * --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
