anecdotalism

Another example of this anecdotalism is exemplified by people who refuse to fly because they feel driving is safer.

Death of an Anecdotal Species? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008

Another example of this anecdotalism is exemplified by people who refuse to fly because they feel driving is safer.

May « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008

From time to time here on TN I've delved into methodological territory, and in my last effort, quite some time ago, I focused on the charges of "anecdotalism" that qualitative research in the social sciences sometimes faces, and argued that generalizable claims can be generated out of such methods.

Maxwell's Hammer 2008

From time to time here on TN I've delved into methodological territory, and in my last effort, quite some time ago, I focused on the charges of "anecdotalism" that qualitative research in the social sciences sometimes faces, and argued that generalizable claims can be generated out of such methods.

May 2008 2008

Randomized controlled trials ironically amount to "a more problematic anecdotalism," writes Healy by "garlanding" the experience of one drug responder "over the ninefold larger pool of other responders or nonresponders" with the claim it will "generalize to others given the treatment in a way that was never claimed with traditional medical case reports."

Is A Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis the Latest Mania? 2008

Randomized controlled trials ironically amount to "a more problematic anecdotalism," writes Healy by "garlanding" the experience of one drug responder "over the ninefold larger pool of other responders or nonresponders" with the claim it will "generalize to others given the treatment in a way that was never claimed with traditional medical case reports."

Is A Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis the Latest Mania? 2008

You might find this earlier thread on anecdotalism specifically to be of interest.

Maxwell's Hammer 2008

Conjecture and anecdotalism can cut both ways, after all; the meat industry probably has no shortage of anti-Massons who are ready to gaze into the eyes of a pig and tell us that it actually likes not being able to turn around.

Nasty, Brutish, and Short 2004

We're currently beating this dead horse on all the various "SL Numbers Are Crap" posts, but I'm not sure the fundamental point has been made in terms that could maybe? relate to academic research, i.e., anecdotalism vs. quantitative research.

Anti Anti-Anecdotalism 2006

Conjecture and anecdotalism can cut both ways, after all; the meat industry probably has no shortage of anti-Massons who are ready to gaze into the eyes of a pig and tell us that it actually likes not being able to turn around.

Nasty, Brutish, and Short 2004