Anecdotal evidence

As a general educator, I have the privilege of teaching one student with an IEP. His conduct and difficulty staying on task is what mostly interferes with his learning. He gets frustrated at times when given an unfamiliar task he isn’t able to independently complete. Because of this, I make it a priority to continuously monitor his progress on classwork and to provide him with affirmation when he’s putting in significant effort, and redirection when he is off task. Although I have learned to…

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” (J.R.R Tolkien). Like Tolkien states, even the wisest and allegedly enlightened cannot see all possibilities and reliably truth say every judgement. Each year, hundreds of people are sent to death row, judging them to be worse than animals, and therefore to be treated as such. The basis of the court system…

1900s powerful influences of clinical treatment information, skepticism of the medical community’s ability to ensure high-quality health care based on the science of quality measures along with cost resulted in medicine transcending from anecdotal, non-evidence based to one lead by good data that enhanced the discovery of improved treatment practices, coupled with the public’s interest and investment in modern medicine…

Can Cannabidiol (CBD) Fight Metastatic Cancer? The legalization of medical marijuana across multiple U.S States is an indication of why there is so much noise around cannabis. Evidence from scientific studies, clinical trials, and anecdotal stories has demonstrated the vast potential benefits of cannabis, and particularly, the cannabinoids cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in treating a wide range of ailments. Some of these conditions include diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, anxiety…

When educating children who are deaf and hard of hearing, there are a plethora of practices and teaching strategies available to educators. While some of these practices are based primarily on anecdotal evidence, others, such as the practice of Reading-aloud, have a fairly strong research base to work with. Although reading a story aloud to children seems like a fairly simple task, it is actually an incredibly important tool for teaching learners who are deaf and hard of hearing. Literacy…

to repair than foreign cars.” Keith: “Ah, Mick, me aunt had a Ford™ that did’na last a year before the motor crapped out. Aye, it was, in the end, cheaper to buy a new Toyota™ and she’s had that car for five years.” This is an example of “anecdotal evidence” that comes from a limited personal story, experience, and knowledge of Keith, who does not agree that the American cars are more reliable and cheaper to repair than foreign cars. This claim cannot be the representative of the population…

Both of them have a problem presenting their evidence, as portrayed by Tatum, her evidence shows too little to no evidence leaving her claims unsupported. Tatum, the author of “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria,” provides too little evidence to convince readers of her position. She does not include enough evidence to support her argument. This leaves readers to question the little evidence she provides is reliable. Her unsupported claims does not make…

Website Critique Incredible Infant is a blog created by mothers to offer helpful parenting tips from common concerning issues to fun craft ideas (Taylor, 2015). The Incredible Infant website reaches over six million viewers, with over six thousand subscribers who receive the sites posts delivered directly to their email, with a motto that every parent is the expert of their own child. The founder and CEO of the website Heather Taylor, is a mother of three children who started the website in…

audience and readers by dropping some of the usual trappings of formal and academic writing including but not limited to higher level terminology, complex sentence structure, and formal citation rules. Further, we see the use of colloquialisms, anecdotal evidence, and candid commentary unfit for academia. All of this lends the piece a vibe not unlike a conversation among friends. His intention with this piece…

Richard Alba and Steven Messner study the concern of guns, crime, and gun control in Gary Kleck’s book “Point Blank”. They publicize the flaws in Kleck’s analysis and linkages within his evidence and inferences. They concur with Kleck on the gun control debate that it needs grounding in the evidence and set out to examine the foundations for some of the contentious conclusions by Gary Kleck and others. The examples they use demonstrate disagreements of authors' opinion on the control of guns.…