Anecdotal Evidence Worksheet

Everybody loves a good story, but stories can become a problem when people pay more attention to them than data. In the Youtube video accompanying this worksheet I explain, using examples from television and real life, how students can use critical thinking to consider the reliability of anecdotal evidence.
The worksheet includes:
  • Space for students to take notes with prompts based on Harvard's Project Zero thinking routine 'Take Note'.
  • Simple recall questions to reinforce the concept of anecdotal evidence.
  • Hypothetical examples that challenge students to analyse the reliability of anecdotal evidence.
  • Includes a question prompting students to consider how to talk to someone that is using anecdotal evidence.
  • An answer key for questions that are not specific to individual students.

​Click below to download the worksheet from Google Drive.
© Luke Scholtes February 2023