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Thanks. I'm not intending to push anything here. She has some other interesting articles and I came across this one on her blog while I was reading those. Didn't really see any discussion online about it, and thought this would be a good community for evaluating the claims. I'm coming from a place where I think stuff like this that tries to make concrete claims from data is best discussed and picked apart, especially since it didn't come across as bad faith to me, but I can understand that might not be a view shared by everyone.