Is the report and analysis internally consistent?
Because of errors, misstatements, and distortions, there are a number of inconsistencies. These will be discussed later. With the EAW and Cavanaugh report analyses on the table, we had to decide just as YOU will have to decide for yourselves the merits of these analyses. They should be evaluated in terms of: Consistency, logic, internal and external contradictions, integration, integrity, freedom from error, forthrightness, care, fair representation, scientific rigor, sampling. Unfortunately, the study has failed on several counts. It lacks scientific rigor, its language obscures reality, there are inconsistencies within it, and it is but a limited and biased sample of the conditions under which concerts would eventually transpire. It does not meet the standards of scientific inquiry. Careful evaluation of the document reveals a number of conceptual, methodological, and logical flaws. Further, there are even significant errors in the arithmetical calculations and computation of the on
