Anecdotal evidence is evidence based only on personal observation, collected in a casual or non-systematic manner. "Anecdotal" can refer to: 1. Relaying...

psycholinguistics and choice theory, anecdotal value refers to the primarily social and political value of an anecdote or anecdotal evidence in promoting understanding...

as evidence that cannot be investigated using the scientific method. The problem with arguing based on anecdotal evidence is that anecdotal evidence is...

hypothesis'. The rules for evidence used by science are collected systematically in an attempt to avoid the bias inherent to anecdotal evidence. In law, the production...

the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing...

suppresses evidence that could lead to a complete picture. Cherry picking can be found in many logical fallacies. For example, the "fallacy of anecdotal evidence"...

appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logic. The fallacy is committed when one asserts...

explaining how the sting lasts for such a long time. There has been anecdotal evidence of some plants having no sting but still possessing the hairs, suggesting...

have no support except general acceptance and clinical anecdotal literature; however, any evidence of possible harm excludes treatments from this category...

leaving a butt plug inserted for longer than two to three hours, though anecdotal evidence dictates some users wear their plugs for even longer; some committed...