>Sure, people can do both; it's just depends on which question you
>want to answer. "Why does that doofus make that bogus claim
>time and again?" --Analysis of motives is helpful. "Is that
>claim bogus?" --Analysis of motives is irrelevant.
And I might suspect that you're really into hard data because you want to separate the kind of psychology you do from all that squishy unscientific stuff the Freudians do. That wouldn't invalidate your position, but it would add some perspective to how to interpret it.
Doug