Anecdotal evidence is evidence based only on personal observation, collected in a casual or non-systematic manner. When used in advertising or promotion...

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...

appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true...

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

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...

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...

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...

little evidence of improvement or underlying technological change in their underlying know-how across generations. For example, archaeological evidence indicates...

scientists apply to evidence exclude certain evidence that is legitimate in other contexts. For example, anecdotal evidence from a friend about how to treat a certain...