You are criticizing me for trying to rely on data rather than a complex subjective model based on information from the beliefs of people that I have never met and have no input from? There is no way for me to attempt that approach that does not come down to some form of "making shit up".
More generally you are right that I prefer to work off of data rather than subjective opinion. Data I understand. Subjective opinion is valuable, but suffers from major potential biases. Correcting for that can be very hard.
You are criticizing me for trying to rely on data rather than a complex subjective model based on information from the beliefs of people that I have never met and have no input from? There is no way for me to attempt that approach that does not come down to some form of "making shit up".
More generally you are right that I prefer to work off of data rather than subjective opinion. Data I understand. Subjective opinion is valuable, but suffers from major potential biases. Correcting for that can be very hard.