I was reading a few past answers on this subreddit about Pomeranz's theory regarding the great divergence, and there seemed to be somewhat of a consensus about the fact that the picture Pomeranz creates is misleading and overly optimistic. Could someone elucidate the manner in which the data was misread/ incorrectly interpreted and whether this was a result of his overall methodology or just by virtue of a lack of data? Examples/reading would be helpful too.

Thanks!