Anecdote inbound. I recall our formal lab write-ups comprised a large part of our final grades. Poorly written, poorly formatted formal lab write-ups consistently got C's while well written and formatted write-ups got A's. In this case I can see a strong correlation between English scores and physics scores.

Even when it is paired with a question asking for clarification on the subject matter at hand?

Yes, because you can always delete the downvote noise and keep the clarifying question.

They can be when they are in abundance.

The plural of anecdote is not data, though.

> The plural of anecdote is not data, though.

Of course it is.

What do you think data comprises? It's just an aggregation of anecdotes.

Are you really sure? Data is supposed to have been collected by some method, not just randomly waiting in forums for complains about something.