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Subject: Re: Elo-Maths & Science Methods

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 18:06:59 09/16/02

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On September 16, 2002 at 17:46:46, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>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

"hold your variables constant"  ??



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