My work mentors taught me never to attack a person, but to debate the idea.
Proposal: Stop telling people they’re “delusional” or “liars” or implying that they are evil owner/realtors if they disagree with you, and I’ll stop saying you’re extreme…
It’s hypocritcal of you to ask that people don’t call you names, or assign labels to you, when you do the exact same thing. Yes, I just said you were hypocritical, and yes I know I just judged you.
On the other hand, I will agree with others that you bring good information to the forum. You obviously spend a lot of time scouring the web for information and many on this forum, including myself, are very thankful for that. But in the move from presenting the data to adding your commentary (the analysis stage) you cannot help but let your personal bias get in the way. If you looked inside yourself (figuratively speaking) and understood your own bias, then I believe you’d make a better analyst. Instead of just searching for articles/information that PROVE your theories, look for articles that DISPROVE. Do both!
Look for faults in data that you support, as hard as you look for faults in data you don’t support. I remember one post (I’m not interested in searching for it) where someone presented a graph that supported the idea of increasing home prices (or something similar). You immediately, and correctly, jumped in it for not looking far enough back in time. A little while later you yourself presented some data to support your forecasts that didn’t go far back enough in time. In fact, it went back less than the data you *didn’t* like. So, with the forecast you didn’t agree with, you looked VERY hard for faults, cracks, problems. With the forecast you agreed with, you didn’t do the same. I believe it’s called confirmation bias, selective thinking, or some other term.
