The value of anecdotal evidence

Scientific thinking is often opposed to anecdotal evidence. Are anecdotes superfluous? We aim to constitute a corpus of anecdotes used in instructional settings, in particular in instructional practices such as sailing or music training, to assess the learning advantages of sailing anecdotes, seen as a way both for the storyteller and its interlocutor to sharpen event schemas that supposedly enhance complex event recognition from the chaotic flux of perceptual cues in technical situations.