I see a lot of posts by the author curious as to why people downvoted -- is it okay if I ask? This seems like _the_ comment I would want to read if I had the op

I see a lot of posts by the author curious as to why people downvoted -- is it okay if I ask? This seems like _the_ comment I would want to read if I had the option of selecting a tl;dr or general reaction. He's not even saying they're wrong, he's just saying that without using a larger sample size the recommendation isn't founded in research. This appears true -- it's primarily built from induction over other ideas.