The singular of "data" is not "anecdote" (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Sunday, 29 June 2003

The singular of "data" is not "anecdote"

David Pinto quite properly eviscerates a local sports columnist who longs for the days when baseball scouting wasn’t burdened by such trivial matters as empiricism and illustrates his point by citing exactly one mediocre ex-major-leaguer who was apparently located at the high end of the distribution of the error term.

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