Ah, that makes more sense. I agree that we mostly agree. I went back and read the paragraph in question and I see how that part of this happened. I blame pronouns—now that I know who/what everything is referring to it all makes sense. I think if you replaced “those people” with the “those responding” or something like that, this confusion doesn’t happen.
That doesn’t mean this isn’t also my fault, though; I didn’t even see the alternate/actual interpretation, and what you wrote was at worst ambiguous. So I was being somewhat uncharitable there in not looking for an alternate explanation, which seems bad.
Ah, that makes more sense. I agree that we mostly agree. I went back and read the paragraph in question and I see how that part of this happened. I blame pronouns—now that I know who/what everything is referring to it all makes sense. I think if you replaced “those people” with the “those responding” or something like that, this confusion doesn’t happen.
That doesn’t mean this isn’t also my fault, though; I didn’t even see the alternate/actual interpretation, and what you wrote was at worst ambiguous. So I was being somewhat uncharitable there in not looking for an alternate explanation, which seems bad.