They Say I Say chapter 4 exercise 1

I believe the author agrees and disagrees at the same time. Though i think she does not present her argument upfront which i did not like because in the beginning i was some what confused about what side she was taking. She begins by presenting a common argument of current scholars in her field and provides an example. Towards the end of the first paragraph she brings up the fact that many of these ideas have not been investigated empirically. So she agrees with the idea but disagrees about how this idea has been studied and she states that she is going to prove this idea right empirically.