Oh good -- thank you, David Judy Evans, Cardiff ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ritchie" <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 6:29 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Ideology vs Experience > > On Sep 30, 2006, at 3:57 AM, Judith Evans wrote: > > >> Aaach! The plural of anecdote is not 'data'. And I probably > > heard it > >> here. > > > > I object to this -- as do some other social scientists -- on the > > grounds that an anecdote is a datum. > > > > Hear, hear. > > David Ritchie, > breaking the rules in > Portland, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html