Anecdotes Quote by Ben Goldacre

The plural of anecdote is not data.

— Marc Bekoff

“As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.”

— Robert Lane Greene

The plural on anecdote is not evidence

— Michael Mauboussin

“Data doesn’t matter. Only opinions and stories formed from the data matters and gets shared and absorbed.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Data alone has no value—it’s just masses of numbers or words.”

— Steven J. Bowen

“One person's data is another person's noise.”

— K.C. Cole

Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative.

— Roy Sekoff

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

— Dan Heath

The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of…

— R. D. Laing

That's why we have journalists, for stats.

— Maria Sharapova

“What we lack in knowledge, we make up for in data. We”

— Ethem Alpaydin

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

— Clifford Geertz