“…As one last piece of evidence about the value of stories, there is a grand irony behind the saying that I started this blog post with: \u201cThe plural of anecdote is not data.\u201d When Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Dictionary of Quotations investigated the origins of the truism, he found an interesting anecdote at its source.”
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\n“Political scientist Raymond Wolfinger first used a variation of the common phrase in a graduate seminar at Stanford. A student in the class dismissed a simple factual statement as \u201ca mere anecdote,\u201d and Wolfinger snapped back, \u201cThe plural of anecdote is<\/i> data.\u201d Somewhere along the line, Wolfinger\u2019s words got twisted into their reverse, and it has been repeated in that form ever since.”
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\n“But of course, statistically speaking, Wolfinger\u2019s the one who got the quotation wrong.”<\/p>\n
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