I wish forum authors would avoid framing their arguments as “us vs them”. It makes me spend far more time engaging with the piece than I would have rationally chose to!
Thanks again for the valuable thought provocation anyway though :)
In the case of this post, was your engagement a result of a drive to “defend” one side or the other? Was it because the idea of conflict made the post more tempting to read than had it been something like “a positive argument for more development research, without comparison to other types of research”?
I wish forum authors would avoid framing their arguments as “us vs them”. It makes me spend far more time engaging with the piece than I would have rationally chose to!
Thanks again for the valuable thought provocation anyway though :)
In the case of this post, was your engagement a result of a drive to “defend” one side or the other? Was it because the idea of conflict made the post more tempting to read than had it been something like “a positive argument for more development research, without comparison to other types of research”?
Agreed. Also you should call people by what they refer to themselves as. I think ‘Randomista’ comes across of a pejorative.