[bonoboTP]

Why so bitter and angry? As far as I can see, his calculations make sense and lead to interesting results. Instead of philosophical nitpicking, why not help him improve his understanding by explaining how you would have calculated/formalized/modeled this thing, so the scare-quote data "scientists" can learn something?

By the way, we definitely don't hear all words that these characters speak in their lives. It's implied in the story that there are conversations that we don't get to see in the actual episodes, but nevertheless these imaginary characters speak a lot more. For example we don't see each and every breakfast, lunch and dinner discussion, we don't hear all their words in the classroom etc.

Now of course the sampling isn't random, because the creators obviously "select" the more interesting bits of the characters' lives, but in statistics we always make assumptions that simplify the procedure but are known to be technically wrong.

[sdenton4]

But we must protect ourselves from the research parasites! Man the ramparts and ready the harsh words!