Great Book- Someone Actually Trying to Validate Rather then Sell

I don't think most people understand how hard it is to product a book like this. People are happy to sell their methodology, and promote their views and experiences, but it's all anecdotal. This book is a dig for hard facts. I hope it's updated regularly with newer data.

One reviewer asked for more of a practitioner approach. Wow, what a waste that would have been. This book is geared to looking at the outputs of what practitioners are doing. To actually present a methodology would have been bizarre.

Dry and academic? Not for me. I so desperately wanted some bloody facts to counter all the hype, I would have been angry at anything but a measured, fact-focused book.

It's a shame that academics are more tightly integrated with practice. At least our fads would be fact based.

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