[sinkspur]

FreeRepublic is a grassroots medium. Antedotal evidence is everything in this forum.

Free Republic is anecdotal as well. Taking opinions expressed here and extrapolating them into some larger picture won't work, either.

[reed_inthe_wind]

"Free Republic is anecdotal as well. Taking opinions expressed here and extrapolating them into some larger picture won't work, either."

Please tell us the big picture Mr. broadcaster, and we promise not to open our unworthy mouths:

2 a (1) : inference of a generalized conclusion from particular instances -- compare DEDUCTION 2a (2) : a conclusion arrived at by induction b : mathematical demonstration of the validity of a law concerning all the positive integers by proving that it holds for the integer 1 and that if it holds for an arbitrarily chosen positive integer k it must hold for the integer k+1 -- called also mathematical induction