Title: What is the difference between empirical evidence and anecdotal evidence? - Quora
Headings: What is the difference between empirical evidence and anecdotal evidence?
What is the difference between empirical evidence and anecdotal evidence?
Geremy Lawrence
What is the difference between empirical evidence and anecdotal evidence?
Anders Rehnberg
Rob Smith
Elise Beraru

Content: When the data set is limited or when more than one conclusion is possible based on the empirical evidence. Then the most common conclusion of scientists becomes the scientific consensus, aka the anecdote shared by the majority of scientists in that field. So both hypotheses and theories can be based on anecdotes, a hypothesis is often not as well supported by observations as a theory but both describe what people think that the data means. And empirical evidence is the data which may include repeated anecdotal evidence, but is best characterized by observations of physical evidence. Armando Bernal
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an anecdote is a story or a true occurrence of something happening. This something that happened does not reflect that his is always true of everyone or even most people. For example, I might say, “I drive and text all the time and have never gotten into an accident.” Well, good for me, or lucky for me. It could be said that I haven’t gotten into an accident YET. Or it could be said that I really don’t do it all the time but have done it in the past, or that I did it once and am exaggerating.