Definition of "anecdotal evidence" []

• A limited selection of examples which support or refute an argument, but which are not supported by scientific or statistical analysis. (noun)

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• "It was a statistical likelihood that the pair of them were not an isolated anomaly, and there was plenty of anecdotal evidence to support this."
• "I think about the folks of the International Society of Cryptozoology, an innocent group of impassioned hobbyists who like to travel and dream and make elaborately careful collections of anecdotal evidence regarding improbable beasts, and among whom the thylacine is an icon."