Crowd-sourcing the collection of data in a controlled, natural fashion through a non-scientist user is likely a lot more valuable and realistic than observing or collecting data about non-wild Pokemon in a laboratory, by themselves in the wild, or through other known resources.
If you didn’t organically and intimately interact with a Pokemon without bias/filtering the situation through the lens of science, how can you truly claim any understanding?
From the user’s pespective, the lack of available data by default ensures that the user collects the best data, even if it does briefly explain the Pokemon upon observation - likely to serve as a warning of potential danger or to provide a brief explanation to avoid user bias to appearances.
Crowd-sourcing the collection of data in a controlled, natural fashion through a non-scientist user is likely a lot more valuable and realistic than observing or collecting data about non-wild Pokemon in a laboratory, by themselves in the wild, or through other known resources.
If you didn’t organically and intimately interact with a Pokemon without bias/filtering the situation through the lens of science, how can you truly claim any understanding?
From the user’s pespective, the lack of available data by default ensures that the user collects the best data, even if it does briefly explain the Pokemon upon observation - likely to serve as a warning of potential danger or to provide a brief explanation to avoid user bias to appearances.