QOTD: On Anecdotal Empiricism

Anecdotes do not make a science. Ten anecdotes are no better than one, and a hundred anecdotes are no better than ten.
    — Frank Sulloway (p. 93 of Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown by Michael Shermer)

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