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CAHSEE 9.4 Passage Drill. In Paragraph 7, the sentence, "The evidence we have is anecdotal," suggests that the evidence is...what?
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- 00:00
Sorry and here's your shmoop toos your brought to you
- 00:04
by anecdotes we learned the hard way they don't help
- 00:08
with snake bites Different reports were scrawling were scrawling oil
- 00:14
pulling science note on coconut oil Okay we're done in
- 00:20
paragraph seven the sentence the evidence we have is anecdotal
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- 00:25
suggests that the evidence is what and hear the potential
- 00:28
answers likely All right the author makes it pretty clear
- 00:33
what anecdotal means when she says the evidence we have
- 00:36
is anecdotal people tell stories about how the practices helped
- 00:40
them and that's all we have to go on So
- 00:42
anecdotal evidence is only based on the stories people tell
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right it's like with big foot the loch ness monster
- 00:49
alien abductions and intelligent congressman remind us later and we'll
- 00:54
tell you the story of where we were from nineteen
- 00:56
eighty two eighty five short version is we're not alone
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foresee is definitely no good paragraph clearly warns that we
- 01:04
can't trust anecdotal evidence because well sometimes people don't know
- 01:08
what they're talking about our miss informed or they just
- 01:11
make stuff up people they're the worst even though we
- 01:14
can totally trust what people say Well choice a takes
- 01:17
it a little too far just because we can't be
- 01:19
sure that anecdotal evidence is for real doesn't mean that
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it's all a lie Sometimes people do actually know what
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they're talking about Go figure option d takes it too
- 01:29
far as well Anecdotal evidence is not meant to be
- 01:31
straight up fiction The author says that this type of
- 01:34
evidence comes from stories but they aren't supposed to be
- 01:37
completely made up We'll be is the best answer By
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far Anecdotal evidence may not be totally untrue but it
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isn't the solid scientific evidence we prefer Can you blame 00:01:48.028 --> [endTime] us Moshi scientific evidence is a kind of revolting
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