Also, by extension, a lot of the whys of my frustration with a rather large amount of other studies. (Particularly political polling.)
There is both an art and a science to conducting such research; as well as with interpreting the results of that work. It’s always a bit imperfect because what it really illustrates is that even the smarty-pants among us are still prone to the human condition. (As an aside, whenever I think about the human condition I hear the Borg Queen when she says to Data: You are an imperfect being, created by an imperfect being.)
As remarkable as our present body of knowledge may be, it still presents a very crude understanding of the universe at large.
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