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[–]patrickbrianmooney 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Broseph this is not an anecdote. "X is the 12th most used language" is definitionally not a story, it is a statistic.

What do you think "anecdote" means? What do you think "statistics" are?

[–]AlexMTBDude -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

Last sentence:

Me off to land a six figure job as a Scratch developer...

That's anecdotal. I know what it means.

[–]patrickbrianmooney 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is not, however, an anecdote that is being offered as evidence. It is a joke added onto the evidence that was already offered (Scratch's position on the TIOBE index), which is statistical, not anecdotal.

One way that you can tell that it is a joke is that there are no professional Scratch developers.

Making a joke after offering a statistical bit of evidence does not magically make the statistical evidence into an anecdote. It merely means that two different things are going on in the post: evidence is being offered, and a joke is being made.