[lit-ideas] Re: Ideology vs Experience

  • From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:03:53 +0100

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
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