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Re:Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster by acchow on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @03:42AM (#43829694)
“Plural of anecdote is data” is meant to be tongue-in-cheek.

Actual data is sampled randomly. Anecdotes very much are not.

Re:Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster by 9rx on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @03:29AM (#43842197)
> “Plural of anecdote is data” is meant to be tongue-in-cheek.

To be fair, possibly because of this tongue-in-cheek statement, anecdote is sometimes used in place of datum and not as anecdote is usually defined.