scaffolding is the other side of the coin of “downward assimilation”; when we grasp for notions that are out of our cognitive depth, we also stretch our minds, and we come under the influence of thoughts and ideas that would otherwise be beyond us.
This reasonining is not a valid argument that predicting e.g. the MHC-level of a person from linguistic patterns in their digital footprints is impossible. Rather that what is needed is more context; averages, more situations, non-linguistic indicators such as job, life style etc
