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What do you recommend if good data is too costly to collect?
I think that if someone has made a claim but failed to use good data or an empirical model, it should not require good data or an empirical model to convince that person that they were wrong. Great if you have it, but I'm not going to ignore an argument just because it fails to use a model.
Collect better data anyway, real and simulated. Otherwise someone will wave a different argument and reject yours. Happens here all the time.
Also, regarding believable arguments, consider reading http://squid314.livejournal.com/350090.html