"a good deal of what currently passes for empirical psychology is already best understood as insightful qualitative analysis dressed up as shoddy quantitative science" ibid. // applies well beyond psychology.

insightful qualitative analysis is good!

— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) August 28, 2020

Agreed. Qualitative analysis has been sacrificed (and people called “bad scientists” who engage in it) at the false altar of quantification.

We worship at that tabernacle because it seems to promise certitude, but most of the time it just offers the illusion thereof. But qualitative analysis works, and I know it works: that’s how I make money in the market. That, unlike most of science, very much keeps score. If you’re wrong, you’re busted and broke. (Hint: I am not busted nor broke.)