[Tomrn]

favourite line from the article -

"the plural of anecdote is data"

nice.

[afandian]

I was going to reply "you realise that 'the plural of anecdote is not data' is the usual phrasing" so I spent a few seconds searching.

According to this blog, the original doesn't include the 'not': http://quotesjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/the-plural-of-an...

Funny how subverted phrases can supplant the original.

[leephillips]

Yes, very clever - but also, by now, a venerable quip.