You reveak your ignorance, Chris: not permitted to talk to a burka'ed woman? This shows how little you know... As I said, if anyone wants any advice on how to do this, I would provide it. I realized that some might feel intimidated by the possibility of doing so, but it is not at all difficult. You don't even ask how to do it, but simply dismiss the possibility. This suggests to me that you don't really want to. Of course, as a person with your over-weaning self-certainty, any suggestion that you actually make an inquiry about facts is bound to fall on deaf ears. But we have seen you do this at other times, so I don't think anyone will be surprised.
What hubris to assert that you, the great Chris, merely need to make up your mind to know everything, and that the poor fools whose experience you seek to interpret or explain are too ignorant to be even worth-while asking! It is not so much your ignorance I find appalling, Chris, but your steadfast determination to learn nothing. You are right about one thing: there IS more to social science than asking people questions, but you don't even get to that first, elementary and essential step; lucky you, you already know all the answers. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christoph > Reuss > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 1:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Sociology/Victimology 101 (was Re: Women love the burka!) > > > Lawry, you have completely missed my point: That there's much more to > social science than simply asking victims whether they _feel_ victimized. > That's like asking a SUV driver whether he feels safe, and when Bubba says > Yea, then conclude that SUVs _are_ safe. It just ain't that > simple, Lawry. > If it was, we could abolish social science -- after all, any roadsweeper > can go around asking people how they feel. > > Your repeated question whether I ever talked to a nun (yes I did) shows > that you didn't understand the concept of self-selection either. > > Btw, your "advice" to _ask_ burka'ed Muslim women, is a bit funny. > Don't you know that they aren't allowed to talk to male foreigners? > Heaven forbid! (Hmmm... this opens the question what kind of women > you were talking with) > > Chris > >
