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<blockquote data-quote="Fifth Element" data-source="post: 5538494" data-attributes="member: 48135">I don't believe there is any real evidence, that's my entire point. Or at least that the little evidence there is not nearly sufficient to make a detemination.I completely agree with Raven Crowking (!) that your interpretation of a split in the market is reasonable to you based on the evidence you've seen. And you are fully entitled to say something like &quot;I suspect there might be a deep split in the market&quot; or something similar.But your insistence that there is necessarily a deep split, that that is the only reasonable interpretation, is what I object to. The evidence you're basing your inferences on is incomplete and self-selective. It gives hints of what might be going on, but is not nearly sufficient to make a solid determination.It's when you try to paint your personal interpretation as fact that the trouble starts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fifth Element, post: 5538494, member: 48135"] I don't believe there is any real evidence, that's my entire point. Or at least that the little evidence there is not nearly sufficient to make a detemination. I completely agree with Raven Crowking (!) that your interpretation of a split in the market is reasonable to you based on the evidence you've seen. And you are fully entitled to say something like "I suspect there might be a deep split in the market" or something similar. But your insistence that there [I]is necessarily[/I] a deep split, that that is the only reasonable interpretation, is what I object to. The evidence you're basing your inferences on is incomplete and self-selective. It gives hints of what might be going on, but is not nearly sufficient to make a solid determination. It's when you try to paint your personal interpretation as fact that the trouble starts. [/QUOTE]

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