Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!nuug!ifi!bfu From: bfu@ifi.uio.no (Thomas Gramstad) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: How to decide -- sci or talk. Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 90 19:20:56 GMT References: <13468@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <9002012209.AA18147@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu> Sender: bfu@ifi.uio.no Reply-To: Thomas Gramstad Lines: 25 >From: peterson@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Eric J Peterson) >Date: 1 Feb 90 22:19:05 GMT >Instead of having two separate Yes/No votes going on, why not just >have one Sci/Talk vote? You vote one time, either for sci.phil.obj or >talk.phil.obj, thereby eliminating biases in the voting caused by >voting yes twice or no twice in an independent vote. A careless suggestion, for the following reason: As is, you have the four possibilities: (1) yes to spo, no to tpo (2) no to spo, yes to tpo (3) no to both (4) yes to both Your suggestion eliminates (4). This does not eliminate the problems posed by (1) and (2); it enhances them. I trust I need not explain why your suggestion does not eliminate (3). ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Gramstad bfu@ifi.uio.no -------------------------------------------------------------------