Hi, Robin. I will have to read your blog entry in more detail, but just glancing at it, I noticed what we used to call a “Freudian slip”:
You wrote, “In a post titled ‘Another reason I’m glad I’m not a social scientist’ Andrew Gelman took issue . . .”
Actually, my blog post was titled, “Another reason I’m glad I’m not an economist.”
I partly identify as a political scientist and I would never say that I’m not a social scientist!