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Mr Lasastryke posted...

hey, according to corrik in the previous topic, anecdotal evidence is totally legit and if you use it, it just means "you base your arguments on reality rather than feels." good thing multiple people are using it now!

There's a big difference between "something happened one way once or twice so we should always temper our expectations to it" and "they gave an official statement of an event that just happened."

When people are talking anecdotal evidence in the context of a faulty argument, they mean the former.

The latter applies as anecdotal evidence in the legal sense if they went to trial saying that and literally provided no evidence at that time to back it up. Calling it out as the same way Corrik uses anecdotal evidence is flat out not true.

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