Okay, finally got to the mortgage comment and linked article... since the article gives all the dates pretty clearly, I'm not exactly sure where the lack of truth is here -- I guess it depends on what 'recent' is. Should recent go back more years? Or fewer? Although myself, I probably would have written the sentence differently, including that the article is talking about the increase in percentage of people with null or negative equity in my sentence, just in case readers didn't click through to the article the sentence is linked to.
Personally, her tendency to drama and sometimes over generalizing can be irritating to me. But then she can have some very good observations... for instance the note about finding alternate ways to heat, sometimes leading to fires in apartments. I'd never really thought about the why of it, but every time we had a really cold winter in Holyoke, the number of fires went up. Now I'm wondering if it was people using barbecue grills or whatever to create some heat when they fell behind on bills and the utilities were shut off... Pure speculation on my part of course, without proper research. Could have been from smokers or electrical shorts or any number of things. All I really know is that we had more fires during cold winters.
As for your writing, I think you're very conscientious in your presentations - you don't pretend you have all the information available, provide different views and food for thought. There's always a danger when pursuing research on any given subject of only seeing what one wants to see, or weighting evidence unfairly, of course. But I know that when I'm reading your work that if you found new information that balanced the known facts differently or even blew your ideas out of the water, that you would present that as well. Which is very cool, and very much appreciated!
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Personally, her tendency to drama and sometimes over generalizing can be irritating to me. But then she can have some very good observations... for instance the note about finding alternate ways to heat, sometimes leading to fires in apartments. I'd never really thought about the why of it, but every time we had a really cold winter in Holyoke, the number of fires went up. Now I'm wondering if it was people using barbecue grills or whatever to create some heat when they fell behind on bills and the utilities were shut off... Pure speculation on my part of course, without proper research. Could have been from smokers or electrical shorts or any number of things. All I really know is that we had more fires during cold winters.
As for your writing, I think you're very conscientious in your presentations - you don't pretend you have all the information available, provide different views and food for thought. There's always a danger when pursuing research on any given subject of only seeing what one wants to see, or weighting evidence unfairly, of course. But I know that when I'm reading your work that if you found new information that balanced the known facts differently or even blew your ideas out of the water, that you would present that as well. Which is very cool, and very much appreciated!