Quote - > Quote - And even that's anecdotal.......as much of the stuff which is typically found in the forums is anecdotal (not to mention the set-in-stone-because-it-is-a-fact opinions which are formed via the agency of reading the anecdotal opinions of others over never-used-by-them software).

What exactly is your point there?  The non-critical stuff is anecdotal too.  Just because somebody coughed up a couple of hundred bucks for somethingh doesn't exempt them from the category "anecdotal".  Every piece of data in this thread is anecdotal.  :blink:

Please note that I indicated that "much of the stuff which is typically found in the forums is anecdotal", without specifying whether the nature of the anecdotal evidence was positive or negative.

However: I'd say that experienced anecdotal tends to trump "outside looking in" anecdotal.    That is to say: people who've actually tasted something have a better idea about whether or not it tastes good or bad than do those who've only talked about it........even though the "anecdotal" label technically applies in both cases.  Whether or not they've spent $200 to find out is unrelated to the point.

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