<p>“you’ve been beaten up enough on other posts for, shall we say, methodology issues”? beaten up? by all means, engage me! “beat me up!” as you so eloquently put it. as an aside, the argument on other threads is not a methodological one but is a numbers game where a lot of people don’t like what they hear and they argue with it, but that doesn’t make my reasoning wrong. On the contrary. To give you an example of the obvious problem with your reasoning: say, you go as an American in Iraq and proclaim that democracy is a good thing for Iraq’s long-term development but nobody in Iraq really buys your argument, in fact they hate you for it, does that make you wrong? Or does that make them wrong? Don’t confuse methodology arguments with aggregation fallacies (e.g. symmetry/anonymity property in political social choice theory). </p>
<p>if Denison is “so diverse” as you parade it to be, why is it consistently making the Princeton Review lists for lack of diversity? Sure, other schools, particularly in the Midwest, might experience an incident or two, but for some reason The Denisonian (the Denison’s newspaper) shows quite a bit of such incidents in recent years. I would like to hear how you put this in comparative perspective?</p>