Anecdotal Evidence

Type: Informal — Evidence Also Known As: Cherry picking (variant), hasty generalization (variant)

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Definition

Using personal experience or isolated examples instead of sound statistics.

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Form

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Examples

Example 1

My uncle smoked and lived to 100. Smoking isn’t dangerous.

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Why It Persuades

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How to Counter

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Related Concepts

• Related Fallacy
• Related Bias

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References

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Part of the Convergence Protocol — Clear thinking for complex times.