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From: jim%rand-unix@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Cheating
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Date: Mon, 27-Aug-84 13:25:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 27 13:25:24 1984
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From:  Jim Gillogly <jim@rand-unix>

Pierre -

While it's true that the first 8 moves were made without lobbying, the
experiment was, after all, advertised as "Delphi".  In the original
conception of Delphi, the method was to have a number of guessing rounds
followed by production of an answer.  For example, you put a dozen non-
experts on different terminals and ask them to guess the population of
Delaware.  You then tell each of them what the others' guess is, and how
confident each was about his/her answer.  Then repeat the guessing and
broadcasting of answers until you exhaust the planned number of rounds or
your patience or until it converges (I forget what the usual terminating
condition was).  So I'd call it something other than "cheating", which is
kind of offensive.

	Jim