Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science (4): Anecdotal Evidence – Evidence for a discovery is anecdotal.

96.7% of all statistics used in daily conversation are just made up on the spot.

“All I know is … everything” -God-

There’s no place like 127.0.0.1.

Back when President Lyndon Johnson declared War on Poverty, up in West Virginia we thought he meant us. Grabbed our shotguns and headed into the hills, preparing to fight back.

Say it isn’t so, Ethel!

What’s the difference between an elephant and a loaf of bread? Remind me to never send you to the store for a loaf of bread!

Ya got time for breathin’, ya got time for music. -Briscoe Darling, “The Andy Griffith Show”-

Though I’ve belted you and flayed you, By the living Gawd that made you, You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din! -Rudyard Kipling-

The exception that occurred was due not to random failure but to a design error. The exception was detected but was handled inappropriately because the view had been taken that software should be considered correct until it is shown to be at fault. The … opposite view [is] that software should be assumed to be faulty until application of the currently accepted best practice methods can demonstrate that it is correct. This means that critical software must be identified at a very detailed level, that exceptional behavior must be confined, and that a reasonable back-up policy must take software failures into account. -Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1996-