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The final flaw in the J-curve hypothesis is that Davies' method of scanning the prerevolutionary period for signs of frustrated expectations is bound to identify as crucial for revolution circumstances that are in fact commonplace outside of revolutionary situations - "as with the famed methodologist who achieved a hangover with bourbon and water, Scotch and water, not to mention rye and water, and therefore stopped drinking the offending substance: water." How to distinguish frustrations that lead to revolution from those that form the grist of political continuity, Davies never tells us.