Wisdom from Mickey Kaus
11th September 2007
Why do I pay attention to anecdotal evidence? Because academics are always the last to find out what’s happening. If you wait until a social trend turns up in some professor’s peer-reviewed charts, you are waiting too long. (Example: Anecdotal evidence always said people spent a long time on welfare. Academics said they didn’t. Until, after a decade or two, the academics looked at their printouts more carefully.)
And there you have it.