Definition of "anecdotalism" []

• A predisposition to relate anecdotes. (noun)

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• "Another example of this anecdotalism is exemplified by people who refuse to fly because they feel driving is safer."
• "From time to time here on TN I've delved into methodological territory, and in my last effort, quite some time ago, I focused on the charges of "anecdotalism" that qualitative research in the social sciences sometimes faces, and argued that generalizable claims can be generated out of such methods."
• "Randomized controlled trials ironically amount to "a more problematic anecdotalism," writes Healy by "garlanding" the experience of one drug responder "over the ninefold larger pool of other responders or nonresponders" with the claim it will "generalize to others given the treatment in a way that was never claimed with traditional medical case reports.""