I do, in fact, understand the difference between those two things. It’s precisely because I understand the difference that I asked you what I did.
Now, let me repeat the question (with some additional emphasis on the important bits): what is the phrase “qualitative data” doing in your comment; in what sense do you believe your initial response to gwern contained “data” at all, qualitative or otherwise; and moreover, why do you believe that your use of this phrase (incidentally combined with other interesting phrases, such as “stats wonk”) will cause readers of your comment to believe that it is more likely to be true*, rather than less?
*In fact, I had originally intended to use the word “rigorous” here, but I suspect based on your previous comments that you would not, in fact, agree that “rigor” is a thing to strive for when making arguments; thus I opted for the less specific (but more generally agreed upon) criterion of likelihood. (Whether rigor is in fact an important desideratum is a related discussion to this one, of course, as is—to be somewhat glib—what disregarding said desideratum says about one’s own general quality of thought.)
I do, in fact, understand the difference between those two things. It’s precisely because I understand the difference that I asked you what I did.
Now, let me repeat the question (with some additional emphasis on the important bits): what is the phrase “qualitative data” doing in your comment; in what sense do you believe your initial response to gwern contained “data” at all, qualitative or otherwise; and moreover, why do you believe that your use of this phrase (incidentally combined with other interesting phrases, such as “stats wonk”) will cause readers of your comment to believe that it is more likely to be true*, rather than less?
*In fact, I had originally intended to use the word “rigorous” here, but I suspect based on your previous comments that you would not, in fact, agree that “rigor” is a thing to strive for when making arguments; thus I opted for the less specific (but more generally agreed upon) criterion of likelihood. (Whether rigor is in fact an important desideratum is a related discussion to this one, of course, as is—to be somewhat glib—what disregarding said desideratum says about one’s own general quality of thought.)