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The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3262/
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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I’ve complained about this for years. This is only in America btw. In other countries they just watch and don’t care about the statistics.
That's not entirely true, us Germans love statistics but more like goal to attempt rate or something like this. Received passes, etc. Not whatever they're trying to do here.
Sorry, what I said was an exaggeration, but yeah keeping track of shots on goal, passes, etc are just basic parts of the game. Essentially the same as keeping score. Americans don’t do that. They literally keep track of exactly stuff like the xkcd shows. It’s not even an exaggeration.
Did they do it with most sports? I only seen it in baseball and american football, probably also basketball huh.