I don't want to disparage your comment because I do agree to some extent. However, I think you might be getting voted up because you gave links to some interes

I don't want to disparage your comment because I do agree to some extent. However, I think you might be getting voted up because you gave links to some interesting content instead of because people think you are necessarily correct. I'd like to provide a little balance. It's routine practice in statistical analysis of situations to form a hypothesis which goes against the grain of accepted belief and then to test it using analytical techniques [1]. In fact, this is how the scientific process works. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis