Sentences with phrase «rely on anecdotes»

Atom is a new player and there's no way of knowing what their after - sales support is like — it's something reviewers can't test and we, like you, rely on anecdotes from others to judge that.

Rather than rely on anecdotes and other one - off stories, it's best to look at larger tests and see which drives are actually least likely to fail.

I don't want to rely on anecdotes, but when I visited Boulder in the 1990s in June, the tops of the mountains had so much snow it actually confused me (being from the East Coast); I couldn't believe there was snow in midsummer!

«Everybody's an expert on this issue, but we're relying on anecdotes,» says sociologist Michael Rocque of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

In no way shape or form am I claiming that this survey is scientific or representative of the population but it is unquestionably the closest thing we have to Facebook advertising effectiveness because it does not rely on anecdote.

Defenders of print books usually rely on anecdote or intuition — which can make it easy to dismiss them as Luddites or romantics.

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That's just one anecdote, but it resonates with HR executives I've spoken to in a variety of businesses that rely on building trust with customers.

At times, lawmakers relied on slightly clunky metaphors, revealing anecdotes, and corny jokes.

More a series of anecdotes than an insightful dramedy and relies too much on absurd coincidences and needless sitcom - style lying.

But Boynton BeachClub is more a series of anecdotes than an insightful dramedy and relies too much on absurd coincidences and needless sitcom - style lying.

Policy makers, politicians and media too often discuss data about class sizes and their impact on student learning without an evidence base, relying largely on second - hand research or anecdotes.

Instead, they rely on stereotypes about dumb jocks, anecdotes, and painful personal memories as their proof.

As it is, the book relies heavily on anecdotes, which isn't entirely a bad thing; nothing motivates a topic like a story.

Relying almost entirely on volunteers, the sector relies heavily on experience, anecdote, practitioners and, to some extent, myth to inform their work.