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It's a meaningless observation. One anecdote is not statistically relevant.
by bmalee 13y ago
It's a meaningless observation. One anecdote is not statistically relevant.
- _delirium 13y agoSelf-reports typically don't even count as one data point, because they're notoriously unreliable. Reports about one's childhood and motivations, doubly so. There's a reason psychology as a science is no longer based primarily on introspection, as it was in the 19th century. Exceptions if people's self-conceptions are what is actually being studied; in that case collecting self-reports can be legitimate data-collection.