anecdotal evidence

Confirmation bias – Bias confirming existing attitudes

Empirical evidence – Knowledge acquired by means of the senses

Eyewitness testimony – Account a witness gives in the courtroom of what they observed

Fallacy – Argument that uses faulty reasoning

Faulty generalization – Conclusion made on the basis of one or few instances of a phenomenon

List of fallacies – Reasoning that are logically incorrect or unsound

Post hoc ergo propter hoc – Fallacy of assumption of causality based on sequence of events

Presumption of guilt – Presumption that a person is guilty of a crime

Scientific method – Interplay between observation, experiment and theory in science