If, in an argument, you want to go back to the data and do different or better statistics on it then by all means. I would _love_ to have a disagreement with so

If, in an argument, you want to go back to the data and do different or better statistics on it then by all means. I would _love_ to have a disagreement with someone that went in that direction and we could discuss the intricacies of how to interpret the information that we have. I have my own gripes about the statistics done by various groups, with changing the inflation calculation being a recent example of the bad side of this: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/24/technology/inflation-measure-cpi-accuracy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/24/technology/inflation-meas... However, I think the key point here still stands. Most disagreements (at least in my experience) are not reaching this level, and are instead diving towards anti-intellectualism and dismissing statistics and data interpretation wholesale.