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Subject: Re: Dangers in CC: Statistics - Some Science also on Elo's Lists

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 04:05:27 02/27/03

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On February 27, 2003 at 01:33:31, Harald Faber wrote:

>You must know that Rolfs only intention is to criticize lists, elo and
>(elo-)formulas. He has never provided any MATERIAL (=games) to strengthen
>other/his ideas. Alternative data is totally missing.
>
>I admit that I am kind of pissed that Rolf trolls around here in CCC after the
>CCC has been founded from off the rgcc because of guys like Rolf.
>A pity.


This itself is a very good example for trolls. Harold, also a former moderator,
and from Germany, [where most of those came from who followed undemocratic
traditions during the change from rgcc to ccc; I can well give the names if
someone wants it], is a symbol for those who

     - love computerchess

     - present their "test results" from autoplayer games

     - have no time to discuss the sense of the naked data

     - are unable to understand the meaning of a general and basic critic

     - therefore take such critics as a personal attack against their hobby

     - then instead of training in tolerance go into biting mode of extinction

     - misunderstand the meaning of challenge & refutations

     - can only imagine such refutations on the same level they do tests

     - can't get that sometimes tests are pretty meaningless

     - misinterprete their own activity as the only imaginable one

     - misuse the charta which forbids personal attacks (troll, pissed [!])

     - misuse their "expert" status for exerting power in a social group


I could give more such items. The most illogical argument is in fact that the
activities of the average "tester" could only be challenged with "alternative"
data [apparently imaginable only as the same sort of testings only with
_different_ results] and not with a totally different approach. So it's always
the same. Thoughts are more important than material, in special if material is
based on mistaken thoughts.


Rolf Tueschen



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