Oliver Keyes, 04/01/2013 10:11:
Well, I'd argue "we knew" is not the
same as "we can prove"* ;*p. I
"know" lots of things - that's distinct from being able to prove them to
academia. In my mind, anything which academically substantiates an
internally-held assumption is A Good Thing: maybe not directly for us, but
indirectly, in the sense that it communicates to intelligent people who get
quantitative data the need to help out and work with us.
I wasn't speaking of internally-held assumptions but of previous research.
Nemo