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		acchow 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster “Plural of anecdote is data” is meant to be tongue-in-cheek. Actual data is sampled randomly. Anecdotes very much are not.

9rx 3 months ago [–]

> “Plural of anecdote is data” is meant to be tongue-in-cheek.

To be fair, possibly because of this tongue-in-cheek statement, anecdote is sometimes used in place of datum and not as anecdote is usually defined.

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