For my paper, I've been trapped in the cycle of wanting more and more data, and wanting more methods. I think that in some ways what I am doing is problematic, although, it has about as much relevance as people using spectrograms to do performance analysis. And it is an exploratory data.
But what I worry about, in general, is the tendency to value quantifiable data, and not questioning the methods wherein the data becomes quantified. I wish that my analysis did not have so many confounds -- I am using video data that was definitely not intended for this kind of analysis.
Also, I think the quantifiable and the scientific occupies too much of an exalted place in our society. I am not anti-science by any means, but there are many ways of knowing and understanding experience. Once you have an analytic equation, this is only one type of understanding. And the equation can be misleading... which I think most scientists understand (the ways and the means) but not most laypeople, I think.
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