Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:20:13 02/05/01
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On February 04, 2001 at 22:25:52, Ralf Elvsén wrote: >On February 04, 2001 at 20:04:42, Bruce Moreland wrote: > ><snipped> >> >>Often, we start out with two programs and we want to be able to make comparative >>statements about the two programs: >> >>1) A is stronger than B. > >This is what I find so hard to understand in many cases. To have the >information "X is stronger than Y" is to me uninteresting unless >I know how much stronger it is, i.e. I want an estimate of the >average score. Some people seem to run matches and then declare >which program is strongest, but doesn't it really matter to them >if the average score is 50.000001% or 99.99999% ? And if you >want this number it has to be given with an estimate of the >uncertainty... Back to square one. > >Contrary to what you are saying (which I snipped and now >am too lazy to restore) the information "X is stronger than Y" >only makes sense to me if e.g. you as a programmer were running >two close versions of your program against each other. A lot of people want to be able to say this, for whatever reason. bruce
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