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I realized that I unnecessarily came off like I was getting on your case specifically about this. It's just a concept that's crossed my mind in general lately a

• baconner 10y ago
  no worries! i can see how what i said originally could be read that way and suspect we may agree that there's a bit of an unhealthy tendency amongst some of our peers to overstate how well science works and underestimate everyday reasoning that we all must do. Science is messy too. The world we're measuring is messy. I say - use the best method that you reasonably can use and see where it gets you. If that's science then great, but often you need to get by with a lesser method and that is ok.