Comment by cushychicken

For a guy who just made a uniformly damning and unnuanced statement about his peers in the industry, your concerns about "making a lot of assumptions" ring rather hollow. Perhaps you think only other people have to lay out their evidence and argument in a rigorous way, but not you?

Anyway, you could analyze my comment and reply. That's what I did with yours. Perhaps you could call my apparent bluff and challenge what I claim to know about epistemology. Maybe you're having trouble doing that because analysis wasn't how you arrived at your own opinion? You were expressing an ideological position that you inherited from-- I'm just guessing-- one article about Six Sigma or TQM that was 30 years old?

I read Quality Without Tears, by Phil Crosby, in 1987, that expressed much the same attitude as you just did. I've had a lot of time, since then, to become educated and experienced in these things.