Anecdotal Evidence Worksheet
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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.
See below for more information.
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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.