One cannot build a house from sand. A house is not a *solution* to the fact that your building material is sand: it is a potential *effect* of having solid building material. Theory is similar. Physics, biology, were built on centuries of observation (eg astronomy, breeding)
I'm probably not following... but are you saying we need more anecdotal/observational data before we can do theory?
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Probably depends on area -- but I do think it is an issue that poor quality, quantitative experimental work is taken too seriously. (it may have the effect of choking out other approaches, e.g., qual)
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