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[CZroe]

Ah, yes. The anecdata is the plural of data argument.



Your experience isn't the vast majority's experience, regardless of how strongly you feel about it.

How do you know it isn't? Did you sample enough people yourself? Does the data from the Forbes article directly contradict the assertion?

Enough anecdotes can amount to actual data/statistic. I really hate seeing people go on spreading lies and dismissing the truth as anecdotes. It's myths like "blowing Nintendo games never did anything to affect your success rate and is an example of confirmation bias" continue to spread like wildfire when the claim is 100% unsubstantiated and not true.

FWIW, Forbes is like HuffPo or MentalFloss or any number of bloggish places where they publish stuff that doesn't come from staff writers.

 

[nickqt]

How do you know it isn't? Did you sample enough people yourself? Does the data from the Forbes article directly contradict the assertion?

Enough anecdotes can amount to actual data/statistic. I really hate seeing people go on spreading lies and dismissing the truth as anecdotes. It's myths like "blowing Nintendo games never did anything to affect your success rate and is an example of confirmation bias" continue to spread like wildfire when the claim is 100% unsubstantiated and not true.

FWIW, Forbes is like HuffPo or MentalFloss or any number of bloggish places where they publish stuff that doesn't come from staff writers.

2004 RAND study:
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9100/index1.html

2007 CBO Study:
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/88xx/doc8892/12-21-va_healthcare.pdf

2010 Interdisciplinary study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20966778:
http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/publications/esp/quality.pdf

2012 RAND blog with links to various studies and reports:
http://www.rand.org/blog/2012/08/socialized-or-not-we-can-learn-from-the-va.html

2014 Independent Report:
http://www.va.gov/opa/choiceact/documents/assessments/integrated_report.pdf

 

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[Victorian Gray]

 

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[nickqt]

YES!

That is my favorite part of those videos linked to the other day in another thread.

 

[Victorian Gray]

1965

 

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1997:

 

[Sonikku]

 

[Victorian Gray]

 

[Victorian Gray]

one for the Canuckians

 

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