It's not mind-boggling at all. Academia is the lens for interpretation. Even if their methods for data collection are sound (a big assumption), their data interpretation has become absurdly biased. They're so used to interpreting things "correctly" that the idea of letting the data speak for itself leads to conclusions they're specifically trained not to reach.
It's not mind-boggling at all. Academia is the lens for interpretation. Even if their methods for data collection are sound (a big assumption), their data interpretation has become absurdly biased. They're so used to interpreting things "correctly" that the idea of letting the data speak for itself leads to conclusions they're specifically trained not to reach.