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Subject: Re: This test is not scientific!

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 12:11:15 01/26/99

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On January 26, 1999 at 13:18:58, Dann Corbit wrote:

>I don't think that any of these tests will prove anything.
>
>During the KKUP2, after producing a move and emailing it, I would start Crafty
>on the response to the move that Crafty suspected.  Only three or four times
>during the course of the game was an unexpected move delivered so that I had to
>redo the analysis.  That way, as soon as I got the move, I could deliver the
>response most of the time and speed up the game quite a bit.

Sometimes you have a hypothesis, you test it, and your hypothesis is correct.
Other times it is incorrect.

You can be doing science in either case, and in either case the result can be
interesting.

I have a few hypotheses, but I haven't defined them before the experiment, so I
am not being as rigorous as I could be.

bruce



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