 The word is Anecdotal Observation. Anecdotal Observation is something completely non-scientific, but get scientists to use all the time to make judgments about their world. Just don't tell anybody, I just said that. Now, Anecdotal Observation is an uncontrolled observation that usually leads to an explanation, which we don't, it's really bad, it's hard for me to even give the definition because I tell people not to do this, but it's something that you just do anyway. So we observe something going on in the real world, we draw conclusions about that, it's not in a controlled setting, it's not in a laboratory, there's no ABC analysis, there's no reversal designs and stuff switching back and forth, it's just, I watched Brad walk down the street and he had this face on. So I assumed he was mad, that was an anecdotal observation. You know, there's a cat laying over there and has its eyes closed, so I assumed the cat is tired. Might not be tired at all, this might be fucking bored and tired of me, all of the conclusions that I just gave are anecdotal. There are observations, I see the cat, there's nothing, no scientific value to it really, but it's useful when you're just trying to get into an area. So don't beat up on it as much as I do, but realize it just sucks.