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People often say "that's antidotal here is a study done by scientists" but your own personal experience with the issue is different should you discount your person experiences and just take their evidence as fact? Even if it conflicts with your own experiences.
No I don't think so. Anecdotal evidence is rightfully ignored because it's taken from a sample size of just one (or several people if it's from your friends/family). Any scientific study done with a sample size that low is completely worthless. Humans are also incredibly prone to bias. That's why we need the scientific method and these impartial studies to be done, even though they may not feel as compelling to us emotionally as anecdotal evidence, because it's those very emotions that are known to lead us into bias.
I dont think you should completely dismiss your own experiences because sometimes studies don't tell the whole story. Often times they will focus in on one fact and not try to show you the bigger picture.
For example, I have heard people come out in support of lockdowns by saying the bodycount of covid is 500,000+. When assessing the threat level to me and my family should I discount that nearly everyone in my family and half my coworkers had covid already and survived it with ease, including my 85 year old grandfather who got it when he was just getting over pneumonia? Does that not matter that real world experiences differ to me in the threat level that theyre telling me?
There was a study done last century I believe to prove marijuana killed brain cells, and it was fully published and backed by the science community
What no one thought to think about for some time was that the monkeys who were breathing marijuana smoke through a gas tank were also inhaling pure oxygen (not just "air") which is known to kill brain cells
In middle school I learned about graphs and charts, and how some people might present their information in a bias way to make it seem different than what the information actually says
Science is the same way, except scientists are smart enough to understand what studies and tests will be accepted, all the little parts and pieces in play, and the fine line between them that gives them the results they wanted with the community backing their claims
As far as covid-19, I think you said this yourself, how hospitals get a check for each covid-19 patient in their care. The government official who set that up would know if you tell a hospital they'll get money for each covid-19 death it would be abused. That's why people dying in car accidents get a cause of death by covid-19, and one can only speculate why that official would want that many deaths tallied
Yeah, I would agree with this, dude. Anecdotal evidence from your own point of view in particular is useful, and not ot be discredited.
“Anecdotal” evidence is not fact, you’d have to be a complete moron to rely on it more than we already do.