Anecdotal evidence

Why I Teach: During my senior year, the high school I attended offered its first computer class. I eagerly enrolled and learned BASIC on an Apple IIe. My first program was a game similar to Boggle's word search. I meticulously drew up my project plan, spent hours in my room at night working through the logic of my program, carefully entered my code, and, remarkably, it worked! I shared it with my classmates, who then asked me to show them how to bring their own visions to life. It was…

ClassDojo to monitor and encourage awareness of targeted behaviors specified in an Individualized Education Plan through a case study. This study will follow the three triangulation points of data from numerical occurrences tracked through ClassDojo, anecdotal record from the researcher, and numerical occurrences tracked through self-reflection by the student in the form of a checklist. From using these components of data, primarily in support of ClassDojo, we are hoping to accomplish the…

According to current anecdotal evidence, it has been proven that the 18-24 age range is the hardest demographic to reach efficiently through media advertising. This demographic fit into the Gen Y and Gen Z category. To Gen Y and Z, technology isn’t new and exciting anymore, it’s expected, and as the average human has a total attention span of about eight seconds or so, it is especially easy for this generation to lose interest in brands and their media advertising, very quickly. There are two…

Two types of causes are thought to be responsible for dyslexia. One is related to visual processing and the other is related to language processing. It is assumed that this disorder is not caused by problems in intelligence, but is a cognitive disorder. However, it is not uncommon for emotional problems to occur because of this. Defining dyslexia in an oversimplified way is likely to have an effect on the dyslexic’s self-esteem. Individuals with dyslexia can be affected emotionally by being…

• Direct link between poor living conditions and disease and life expectancy • “Existence of a mass preventable illness and premature death in the community caused by insanitary physical circumstances” – much of evidence for existence was anecdotal • Chapter about differential class-based death data - measured the average age of death of a specific class – called “average period of life” or “chance of life” • Inspired Public Health Act of 1848 and general Board of Health – first…

The movie Food Inc., released in 2008 criticizes the current methods of food cultivation and processing, especially in the American food industry, for being insensitive to the safety of consumers. The documentary, directed by Robert Kenner Oscar also touches on how other factors such as the income of consumers affect what they eat and the inverse relationship between the profit of food producers and food safety. Kenner starts his movie by tracing the changes in the structure of the food…

In his article “It’s a Flat World, After All,” published in the New York Times in 2005, Thomas Friedman discusses how technology and globalization are rapidly allowing work to be done from anywhere in the world, reducing the West’s economic dominance. Furthermore, he characterizes globalization as an exhaustive and revolutionary transformation in which the entire globe becomes deeply and permanently interconnected. Friedman establishes that the world has been “flattened” as the result of…

article which talks about mind mapping helping with information over load. Landale (2007) states, “There is no doubt that people need help with information overload but the big question is how well these techniques work. Perhaps the strongest anecdotal evidence that they do have much to offer is provided by the number of people who now use mind mapping at work” (p.…

The argument of what gender has it worse is an argument that spans all of history, and it seems that for the most part this battle of the sexes has yet to show a clear winner. There are a plethora of arguments for both sides and it seems that every day the debate between the sexes becomes more and more complicated. Each has their opinions and examples to fight their case and through the articles The Male Myth by Paul Theroux and I Want a Wife by Judy Brady we see yet another side to the never…

Abuse in the United States recently stated in their mice studies that when radiation is used with marijuana, it “may help kill certain cancer cells and reduce the size of others” (Parry, 2015). There is early evidence pointing to marijuana helping children as well. There is “anecdotal evidence that some children with hyperactivity or aggressiveness can benefit substantially from cannabis medicines (in non-smoked forms)” (Hadorn, 2016). Marijuana can also be safer than opioids, which are often…