The Anecdotal Fallacy of Dismissing Anecdotes
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Abstract
It is of course true that many people use personal anecdotes to reach wildly universal conclusions. Thus, concepts such as "anecdotal evidence", "anecdotal fallacy" and "hasty generalization" have been formulated in an attempt to counteract that. However, ironically, many hasty generalizations have been applied to anecdotal reasoning itself:
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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-10-11
Authors: Andrei Ranete