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Originally Posted by Open Mind  'Well conducted'? These are also anecdotal IMHO. Chris these studies basically ask the patient how they feel? That is just an anecdotal opinion of the patient replying to a survey question. You can't have it both ways, you can't say unconventional reports are 'anecdotal' and untrustworthy but when reports match the conventional expectation these anecdotal reports are good science.
Furthermore it raises complex problems of how the question is asked in a survey too and whether the patient feels it is 'negative' to be honest and try to be 'positive', even if they don't feel so. So the problem again here Chris is how do you measure people's 'positive outlook' claim? How can any person diagnosed with cancer be that 'positive'?
Surely there are better ways of testing this? I might comment on this further ... busy at moment |
OK. So you don't understand what an anecdote is.