What is data, and is it just a collection of anecdotes?

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What is data, and is it just a collection of anecdotes?

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Data are just pieces of information. Scientifically useful data are pieces of data which have been gathered under controlled conditions to eliminate errors, biases and poor recording.

Anecdotes suffer from all of those problems.

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