Title: Anecdotal evidence - RationalWiki
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Anecdotal evidence
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Form
Legitimate use
Problems
Regression to the mean
Adulteration
Improbability
Selection bias
Lack of follow up/incompleteness
Advantages of anecdotal evidence
The power of anecdotes
See also
External links
Notes
References

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Also known as the meta-anecdote. ( Source)
“ ” [ Bloodletting] removes coma. Mr. Henry Clymer was suddenly relieved of this alarming symptom, in the fever of 1794, by the loss of twelve ounces of blood. — Benjamin Rush, A Defense of Blood-letting
Anecdotal evidence (also proof by selected instances, or, more pejoratively, anecdata) is use of one or more anecdotes (specific instances of an event; stories) to either support or refute a claim. The use of anecdotal evidence to draw a conclusion is like using the NBA all-star teams to estimate the average height of Americans . Whereas anecdotal evidence is sometimes the starting point of a proper scientific investigation, it is all too often the ending point and every point of a pseudoscientific investigation. In the world of pseudoscience, an anecdote is the equivalent of a peer-reviewed, double-blind, repeatable scientific experiment with consistent results. Anecdotal evidence is often used in politics, journalism, blogs and many other contexts to make or imply generalisations based on very limited and cherry-picked examples, rather than reliable statistical studies.