"the plural of anecdote is (not) data."
Aaron Dinkin
dinkin at SAS.UPENN.EDU
Wed Jul 7 04:13:21 UTC 2004
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Sam Clements wrote:
> Did we do this one before? Or am I just misremembering, having read it =
> over at Straightdope, or somewhere else?
>
> The "not" form seems to be cited only from 1999.
A Google search produces Usenet citations of the "not" form as early as
1993. A post in alt.activism.death-penalty is the earliest I found:
http://tinyurl.com/279sh
-Aaron J. Dinkin
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