Title: Anecdotal evidence - Wikipedia
Headings: Anecdotal evidence
Anecdotal evidence
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Scientific context
Law
Scientific evidence as legal evidence
See also
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Content: Accurate determination of whether an anecdote is typical requires statistical evidence. Misuse of anecdotal evidence is an informal fallacy and is sometimes referred to as the "person who" fallacy ("I know a person who..."; " I know of a case where..." etc.) which places undue weight on experiences of close peers which may not be typical. In all forms of anecdotal evidence its reliability by objective independent assessment may be in doubt. This is a consequence of the informal way the information is gathered, documented, presented, or any combination of the three. The term is often used to describe evidence for which there is an absence of documentation, leaving verification dependent on the credibility of the party presenting the evidence. Contents
1 Scientific context
2 Law
3 Scientific evidence as legal evidence
4 See also
5 References
Scientific context
In science, definitions of anecdotal evidence include: "casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis"
"information passed along by word-of-mouth but not documented scientifically"
"evidence that comes from an individual experience. This may be the experience of a person with an illness or the experience of a practitioner based on one or more patients outside a formal research study."