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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It took a while, but the establishment figured out how to deal with Howey's data: wave the data away and attack Howey personally.
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Personal attack? Where was that? I read disagreement with Howey's methodology, not his character.
While I basically agree with Shatzkin, his post is has some strange twists. After making largely sound criticisms of Howey's research methodology, Shatzkin conceeds that Hovey is probably right about genre novels. And all that Howey was writing about is genre novels.
P.S. You essentially called Shatzkin "establishment." As personal attacks go, that's pretty mild. It would be hard to write provocative posts if you couldn't group a public figure with our dreaded "establishment." So I'm not criticizing you for a personal attack, but suggesting that Shatzkin be given the same slack we should give you.