anecdotal
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- adjective
- /ˌænɪkˈdoʊtəl/
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anecdótico
- His conclusions were primarily grounded in anecdotal accounts shared during the community meetings.
- anecdotal evidence
- anecdotal reports
- anecdotal accounts
And his writings, the formal writings, not just the anecdotal stuff, are amazing.
- And his writings, the formal writings, not just the anecdotal stuff, are amazing.
- It's not just anecdotal, it's it's actual.
- And we've seen this in anecdotal evidence from hundreds of thousands of people now.
- The the Pentagon has released a few videos and there's been anecdotal reports from fighter pilots.
- Far too much of school reform has been anecdotal.
- And, and they've always been anecdotal stories and we laugh at them because they're funny.
- But the evidence that they show is weak at the best, anecdotal and unscrupulous to the Max.
- Like there's a lot of people who are very enthusiastically, you know, sharing their anecdotal experience with us.
- It is so amazing to see this, to take this out of the world of the anecdotal and into the peer reviewed world.
- So then what happened is, and they wouldn't expect them before because because they're too anecdotal, there's not enough research.
- And, you know, that's anecdotal, but there's also data available that like the cops are not preventing crime, OK?
- And this is not only anecdotal, there is clinical evidence that mindfulness decreases anxiety and increases a sense of positivity.
- And we've had some anecdotal cases where, where patients have had problems and because we cooled them, we think it it, it, it made a benefit.
- And so that was that's an anecdotal observation, but it just seemed to be one of the propellants of of a very Hardy and healthy social life.
Examples
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The medical folks call this kind of evidence anecdotal.
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And we've seen this in anecdotal evidence from hundreds of thousands of people now.
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How would you attack some of the anecdotal evidence that was presented?
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And this is also totally anecdotal, but everybody I know that has.
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So each of those points, your sales guy should know what that anecdotal story is, right?
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It's anecdotal evidence at best.
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This idea of marketing being a science, if you look at the evidence, it's all anecdotal.
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All the while, he supplied me with a wealth of anecdotal material about his trade.
Fiction book (2002) -
At this point, it appears that claims that America is losing its exceptional merit are only anecdotal.
Academic text (2017) -
As a result, practitioners have had to rely primarily on anecdotal evidence or untested theories for guidance.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
Using short stories someone tells about real events to entertain or explain
Full of short stories about real people or events
Antonyms
How Reliable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Anecdotal comes from the shorter word anecdote, which originally meant a short, private story or 'not published' tale. Because an anecdote is a personal story, anecdotal means information based on those stories rather than on careful scientific study.