Nice try, but no.Hortator wrote:The plural form of "anecdote" is data.
So...Hortator wrote:How many stories like Berkely does it take before these isolated spots on a map start to form a constellation that looks like a familiar shape? Not many, considering the Greeks thought 5 stars was a cow.
- How many racist Trump supporters does it take to show that Trump supporters are racist?
- How many ignorant Christians does it take to demonstrate that Christians are ignorant?
- How many philandering reverends and pedophile priests does it take to show that clergy tend to be sexual deviants?
- How many white men need to be convicted of rape before we can declare that white men are predisposed to be rapists?
In each instance there are surely enough of the former to "start to form a constellation" that looks like the latter, particularly if the viewer already sees those patterns everywhere he looks. That doesn't make any of them true. All it proves is that punditry is easy. Hell, if I was as immoral as some here have claimed I'd be making good money peddling conspiratorial nonsense to the Breitbart and Infowars crowd.