On: Terence Tao on O1

[kristianp]

> (often misquoted) phrase

You misquoted it there! It should be: The plural of anecdote is data.

[pbrowne011 → kristianp]

Thank you! Another instance of a variant of Muphry's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law

[stavros → kristianp]

It's actually "the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'".

[kristianp → stavros]

Apparently what you've said is the most common misquotation. See [3] above.

[stavros → kristianp]

Oh interesting, thanks! I much prefer that formulation.