I would have voted it down were it not for the rest of the paragraph cited, which basically comes down to “anecdotes are Bayesian evidence, but with caveats related to the base rate, and not always positive evidence”. Which is, as best I can tell, correct. In isolation, the opening sentence does seem to incorrectly imply that anecdotes don’t count at all, and so I’d have phrased it differently if I was trying to make the same point, but a false start isn’t enough for a downvote if the full post is well-argued and not obviously wrong.
I would have voted it down were it not for the rest of the paragraph cited, which basically comes down to “anecdotes are Bayesian evidence, but with caveats related to the base rate, and not always positive evidence”. Which is, as best I can tell, correct. In isolation, the opening sentence does seem to incorrectly imply that anecdotes don’t count at all, and so I’d have phrased it differently if I was trying to make the same point, but a false start isn’t enough for a downvote if the full post is well-argued and not obviously wrong.