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This is a joking, slightly sharp word for information that someone offers as if it came from careful research, when it is really just stories, hunches, or one person’s experience. It plays on the old warning that “the plural of anecdote is not data”: many little stories still do not make proof. You will hear it in arguments about science, news, and the internet, often from someone who is . It is informal, and a bit mocking — not a neutral lab word.
軼事數據（把個人故事或傳聞當成研究結果）
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
anecdatanoun/ˈænɪkdeɪtə/
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derogatoryAnecdotal evidence.
- A handful of stores, just one mall, not what you'd call a statistically significant sample. In fact, the most recent government report was that retail sales rose in January, which just goes to show why the journalist's approach to reality, what you might call "anecdata," may be the flimsiest form of forecasting.
- Anecodotal evidence strongly suggests that this is just the high profile expression of a much larger problem of misogynistic violence. / Ah, yes. Anecdata. Fortunately, real honest studies which are peer-reviewed and critiqued suggest otherwise.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。