Just rename your instinct for pedantry “preference for clear and precise expression”
Including excessive amounts of tangential qualifications and attempting to make statements immune to misinterpretation tends to make statements less clear.
To return to the original point, how about “Timing markets successfully requires either a rare (and VERY well-compensated) skill or access to some relevant non-public information. There is a strong prior that you don’t have any of those so convincing evidence is required to overcome it.”..?
That is another claim I might also make. It just isn’t particularly relevant to the immediate (and quoted) context in the reply in question. (You have been talking about an essentially different issue to the one I was engaging with, which is fine, but obviously I’m not going to accept paraphrasings that aren’t about my point at all.)
Including excessive amounts of tangential qualifications and attempting to make statements immune to misinterpretation tends to make statements less clear.
That is another claim I might also make. It just isn’t particularly relevant to the immediate (and quoted) context in the reply in question. (You have been talking about an essentially different issue to the one I was engaging with, which is fine, but obviously I’m not going to accept paraphrasings that aren’t about my point at all.)
Well, I guess then I don’t understand what did you mean. Would you mind rephrasing your reply in a more clear and robust way?