Then your knowledge may be too constrained to derive sufficiently representative generalizations.

I can highly recommend:

http://www.xoltar.org/old_site/misc/static_typing_eckel.html...

The article (from 2003!) is an excellent treatise on the value of a proper type system as compared to Python, and moreover, how Java's type system (or C++, ...) should simply not be equated with "static typing".