Thoughtworks pointed me at this enjoyable article by Amy Perfors refuting a common saying, "The singular of data is not anecdote." In places, it reads like I imagine Temperance Brennan would read if she weren't a fake forensic scientist based on a real person.
"A better truism would therefore be more like "the plural of anecdote is probably not data", which of course isn't nearly as catchy."
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