Look, I like data — meaningful data — just as much as the next person here, but this is a little bit of a strawman argument, isn't it. You're not defending a comment that was based on any data, you're defending the a priori reasoning with which someone decided to rebut someone's reportage of own experience. I do not think you would stand for that for one second if the topic was operating system development or database engineering or anything at all involving experience that you recognized and valued.

Secondly, you're wrong. "Lived experience" is not the same as "an anecdote." An anecdote is a story. Experience is interrogable. The man sharing his experience is right here on HN. The person who wrote was not repeating a story that he had heard, or describing a single isolated incident.

LOL, no... "lived experience" is exactly the same as "an anecdote". There's literally zero difference. Its a different way of saying, "a story". Anecdotes are interrogable as well. Hell, its in the goddamn definition of the word.

an·ec·dote

/ˈanəkˌdōt/

noun

a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

Your key word in that definition is "real".

Or maybe you were just wrong and your ego can't handle it?

I'm glad it doesn't have a block button. Its for cowards who can't defend their points. I would grill you just as hard if you were sitting across the table from me at dinner and said this kind of nonsense.

Lived experience and an anecdote are the same. Its a single data point and more often than not, single data points are almost never indicative of what's actually occurring.

And as far as what the word "interrogable" means... 1) you're arrogant to assume I don't realize its the adjective form of interrogate and 2) I knew you meant, "Something that can be questioned." Lived experience CAN be questioned. Just because we live in a world full of people who think they have the right to never feel uncomfortable doesn't mean otherwise.

It's clear that you didn't really read what I wrote very carefully.