Sentences with phrase «anecdotal stories do»

Anecdotal stories don't hold much weight.

Anecdotal stories don't hold much weight.

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But without proper data collection anecdotal stories trump proper analysis, and do not allow unfounded or exaggerated claims to be debunked.

That most religions» «bibles» have similar anecdotal stories in them to try to teach lessons and that some have been twisted in more modern translations to say things they didn't say before?

But most women walking around with a baby bump don't have every random acquaintance at Pilates echoing her tape with a terrifying anecdotal story.

While I agree that these are among the most important posts Amy does, I think she's smart to run the blog the way she does, alternating science with horrible anecdotal stories, satire, direct attacks on NCB leaders, and other posts that are deliberately provocative.

It's a great anecdotal story to remind you that even though something may be illegal that certainly does not mean you are not making a choice to do it.

She does a wonderful job of enlightening and entertaining us as she masterfully weaves anecdotal stories of her family's journey into this world of autonomy, discovery and learning.

Despite the fact that most people who are providing advice mean well, the topic of unsolicited advice is one of our «what not to do» pregnancy stories because it is often anecdotal and generally unhelpful.

Proof isn't in the pudding; that's called anecdotal evidence and doesn't account for the placebo effect, which is 99 % of the way these unscrupulous industries stay in business, the other 1 % being the foolishness of the victims they trick into believing their stories.

As with other anecdotal evidence about CBD, you don't have to look hard to find stories of dogs in extreme pain who purportedly found relief through CBD.

Eager to show his clear - eyed wisdom through rhapsodic reveries on how evil the world is, Cimber tells his favourite story here and in the docu of how the MPAA didn't like the incest and pedophilia stuff in the flick, as though he were imparting a nugget of incalculable anecdotal value.

Out - of - school activities in the United States also often include school sports, which are unfairly attacked in The Smartest Kids in the World, Ripley tells anecdotal stories about touring private schools with groups of parents who do not question the guide admitting the math program was weak but balk at the same statement about the football program.

Telling anecdotal stories about Warhol, Pollack, Basquiat, Van Gogh is both (A) fun and (B) has a mythical dimension... if they didn't, they wouldn't have had movies made about them.

However, given that the CAGW position doesn't rest on specific numbers, but is instead an unorganized collection of anecdotal evidence, coupled with heavily - tweaked computer models, unfounded assumptions about positive feedbacks, and a healthy imagination about possible future disasters, a lower warming number for the 20th century will simply be brushed over with claims about aerosols being stronger than previously thought, more warming still waiting in the «pipeline» or similar ad hoc «explanations» that keep the overall story alive.

When we did a road tour to visit the communities that were impacted by coal pollution, we found many anecdotal stories of people saying, yes, my husband, my father, my wife died of lung cancer and never smoked a day in her life.

In its Dec. 18 story on the ATRA report, The National Law Journal noted that the report «is based on anecdotal evidence» and that ATRA «does not provide a methodology used to reach results.»

There doesn't seem to be any exhaustive study or official repository of the swipe failure of smart credit cards beyond the anecdotal stories found online — but Ben Einstein of Bolt, writing about «The Failure of Coin», explains why that's still a problem: it's not a huge deal if, say, your fitness tracker isn't 100 % accurate in the number of steps it counts, but even one or two failures with something important like a credit card or door lock can be incredibly costly.

This handful of examples including my own is but anecdotal, and hardly a representative sample of Surface device owners, but even so, it does tell a story.

On top of that (and this is through anecdotal stories) you hear that lower - end property owners sometimes don't like to do as much upkeep to the units.

Not only do we love the small, unique spaces, that can be found all over Stacey Lipstein's feed, but we also love that her photos come with anecdotal stories of her busy life as a mom and interior stylist.