Quotes About Anecdotal Evidence

#1. What happened to me personally is only anecdotal evidence," Harry explained. "It doesn't carry the same weight as a replicated, peer-reviewed journal article about a controlled study with random assignment, many subjects, large effect sizes and strong statistical significance.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#2. If the young man ate candy, the wrangler says, that's probably what's kept him alive so long. Glucose is a natural antidote to cyanide poisoning. Based on anecdotal evidence, glucose binds with
the cyanide to produce less toxic compounds.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth

Temple Grandin

#4. Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.

Christina Baker Kline

#5. Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.

Herman Cain

#6. The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

Lee H. Hamilton

#7. I have anecdotal evidence in my business that MBAs tend to blow up in financial markets, as they are trained to simplify matters a couple of steps beyond their requirement. (I beg the MBA reader not to take offense; I am myself the unhappy holder of the degree.)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

Mary McCormack

#9. Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

Katherine Dunn

#10. The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.

Thomas Aquinas

#11. Instead of food giving me energy, I am always tired after I eat, which explains why I am always tired. I go to the gym just so I will stop eating for an hour, which, I believe, is the American form of fasting.

Jim Gaffigan

#12. Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

Shane Claiborne

#13. In the end, I think it comes down to being comfortable with who you are versus where you are.

Eileen Cook

#14. You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

Harry Connick Jr.

#15. Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

Brian Boitano

#16. Why are you taking your breasts away?"
-Dane "Cernunnos" Hearne

Katie MacAlister

#17. We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

Kelly Jones

#18. A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

Oscar Wilde

#19. Life after death. Sex after marriage. While claims are made for the existence of both, the sources are oftentimes unreliable and the evidence, at best, anecdotal.

J.D. Lexx

#20. I've been among their critics [MBA programs]. Much of what I've seen in business schools is quite non-rigorous. Anecdotal histories are stretched to illustrate favored slogans. Evidence of their effectiveness is similarly anecdotal.

Charles R. Morris

#21. MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

#22. What paper planes and empty seats most have in common
is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

Buddy Wakefield

#23. He makes you the person you want to be,
instead of the person you are, and that, the idea of life without him is,
not only unbearable, it's unimaginable.

E.L. James