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Mark Nicol

I agree with you on a lot of this. Framed in these terms it is about sample sets. The narrower your sample the more likely you are to see a correlation where there isn't one, or where the evidence is weak or where it reflects an underlying feature of your group.

My original thought, lost somewhere in all this was about opening it up and making fresh models or hypothesis and being cautious about treating things as facts just because they feel right given a particular background or experience.