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> It is clearly anecdotal [1] at the very least to everyone else that reads your comment. It is also clearly insufficient to draw any scientifically valid conclusions.

You are simply repeating something enough that you believe it to be true. You are misinformed about the meaning of the word anecdotal [1] and appear to be playing word games between "anecdotal", "anecdotal evidence", and a misunderstanding of what I wrote.

> It is also clearly insufficient to draw any scientifically valid conclusions.

What is the "it" in your comment? An experiment that someone performs is not anecdotal. [2]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anecdotal

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdotal_evidence



Your own link starts with "Anecdotal evidence is evidence based only on personal observation." Even if you actually performed some experiment on yourself, unless you had some outside method of calculating eye strain it would still be anecdotal evidence.




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