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Subject: Re: Elo-Maths & Science Methods

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 14:46:46 09/16/02

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On September 16, 2002 at 16:06:32, Maurizio De Leo wrote:

>You posted 20 lines of deep insight about science, but you seem not to
>understand that the SSDF is pefectly correct, if you just read it in the right
>way. What it says is that Fritz 7 ON AN AMD 1200 is stronger than Genius ON A
>P90 or of mephisto roma ON HIS ORIGINAL HARDWARE.
>As Uri said a "player" in the ssdf is just software+hardware. In fact Fritz6
>K6-450 and Fritz6 AMD1200 are 2 DIFFERENT entries.Simple as that.
>
>Maurizio

My point is related to testing. (NB that the 'testing' is insinuated by SSDF
itself by the presentation of the ranges +/-. But if you are testing you must
hold your variables constant. Otherwise your data becomes biased.)

Rolf Tueschen



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