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[Baggers]

I didn’t say market research was the be all and end all. That’s a straw man argument. I said making up theories without evidence is the sin. After evidence is obtained by, you know, talking to actual people, then you can draw inferences from the facts. If the Liberals drew the wrong inferences from their focus groups, then that’s on them. In reality, what the Liberals did is what LP is doing. Everyone hates Dan because we do and a small number of cookers do, and Rupert as well, so that means we should run a whole campaign on Get Rid of Dan. If they’d actually done the work rather than going off gut instinct, maybe they would have done a bit better.

I understand that you may find my hypothesis (straw man argument) irrelevant. I get it. But you did seem to base much of your response on the validity of market research over gut... market research being a reliable expertise (and right) but gut (intuition) open to ridicule and to be demeaned/invalidated. I find that a limiting characterization of intuition. And somewhat snide comments toward another's thoughts (Spotted One) that are not evidence based, as off putting.