Author: martin fierz
Date: 22:16:02 09/26/02
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On September 26, 2002 at 22:17:09, Eduard Nemeth wrote: ...approximately this: "ruffian suddenly seems to get worse results than before, when compared to professional programs. ruffian is freeware, and perhaps the reason for the bad results is this: there are a couple of professional programmerss, and they want to sell their software. what would happen if a freeware program was suddenly just as good? the new results are not so good any more and ruffian is now listed behind all professional engines". eduard, i apologize if my translation is not very good! it's also very loose, but i think it's what you meant to say. i think your interpretation (ruffian is as good/better than the pro's but people post wrong results here to keep pros alive) is very speculative to say the least - first of all, you would need a lot of testers who are deliberately posting wrong results. i can't believe that. second, i think there is a simpler explanation: if there were X beta-testers of ruffian, some of them would get above average results, and some below average. who do you think is more likely to post his results here? i guess we just saw a selection of good ruffian results here due to "tester bias": if it got a great result, it was more likely to be published here. now that everybody is testing it, bad results come in too... aloha martin
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