This is the crux. You can’t take a small amount of empirical data, skip sociology, postulate a hypothesis which you don’t intend to test, and then generalize from it.
I’m not gonna downvote this thread because I don’t think stating this hypothesis is bad; I just think its presentation is sloppy. Lukeprog, please don’t take this too harshly; I make similar mistakes all the time.
This is the crux. You can’t take a small amount of empirical data, skip sociology, postulate a hypothesis which you don’t intend to test, and then generalize from it. I’m not gonna downvote this thread because I don’t think stating this hypothesis is bad; I just think its presentation is sloppy. Lukeprog, please don’t take this too harshly; I make similar mistakes all the time.