Re: Just a single Question for the Candidates
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:39:22AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
> >
> > Yes, very clever. And also very silly. When collated in large
> > numbers, anecdotes _do_ become data -- ask any psychologist or
> > sociologist.
>
> No, I refuse to accept this. Psychology and sociology are fuzzy
> "sciences" for the most part, where very little is proven. That does
> not mean that the standards for proof should be lowered, it means that
> their conclusions should be treated with the usual skepticism and not
> as things which have been conclusively proven.
>
Do you have any data to prove this, or is this just a wild hypothesis?
Pasc
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