Statistics versus Qualitative Research

I wrote an article that was published in The Psychologist called "Why I study statistics". (It was, if you're interested, volume 19, part 11, 672-673, and part of a series on Why I study ...). Anyway, in the next issue (or maybe the one after) the following letter was published, written by David Mingay:

I HAVE just read ‘Qualitative research… Emerging from the cocoon of science’ (November 2006) and didn’t understand a word of it. I turned the page and read ‘Why I study statistics’ and understood it completely. Maybe that simple observation answers the question posed by the author of the first article:‘Why does it [qualitative research] have such a low profile within academic psychology?’

I'm not sure that anyone has ever previously said they understood anything I wrote.

Update: Article 'Why I study ... statistics' available as PDF. (Nice picture of me as well).