03-24-2018, 08:29 AM
Old Croc wrote:
"I didn't feel the need to provide sources because I know Paul will feverishly look them up to try to prove me wrong"
1) I find that hard to believe. What about all the other people apart from Paul who would like to see the sources? In my decades of working in a field that attracts weird people who want to make their theories sound good, it tends to go downhill when you question their sources, so I'm a little skeptical.
2) From a scholarly perspective, not providing sources is the same as waving a flag and saying I'm posting nonsense. It usually means that the sources don't support your argument, which you appear to have admitted to.
3) I will also add that your initial post in this thread contained statistics without sources and was not a response to Paul. So I am now triply skeptical. So, will you post your sources/links now that someone else has asked?
Thanks in advance.
"I didn't feel the need to provide sources because I know Paul will feverishly look them up to try to prove me wrong"
1) I find that hard to believe. What about all the other people apart from Paul who would like to see the sources? In my decades of working in a field that attracts weird people who want to make their theories sound good, it tends to go downhill when you question their sources, so I'm a little skeptical.
2) From a scholarly perspective, not providing sources is the same as waving a flag and saying I'm posting nonsense. It usually means that the sources don't support your argument, which you appear to have admitted to.
3) I will also add that your initial post in this thread contained statistics without sources and was not a response to Paul. So I am now triply skeptical. So, will you post your sources/links now that someone else has asked?
Thanks in advance.