anecdata
Anecdotal evidence.
Noun
- Anecdotal evidence.
- A handful of stores, just one mall, not what you'd call a statistically significant sample. In fact, the most recent government report was that retail sales rose in January, which just goes to show why the journalist's...
- Anecodotal evidence strongly suggests that this is just the high profile expression of a much larger problem of misogynistic violence. / Ah, yes. Anecdata. Fortunately, real honest studies which are peer-reviewed and...
- That is one of those stories that I call “anecdata”—these horror stories over which we try to construct theories about how something is or is not working in IP law and policy. - 2003, Justin Hughes, “Legal Pressures in...
Origin
Blend of anecdotal + data; also compare this to the plural of anecdote is not data, upon which this term likely plays. Equally, analysable as a blend of anecdote + data.