Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 20:02:11 02/13/99
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On February 13, 1999 at 22:14:12, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 13, 1999 at 14:34:31, Richard Harrison wrote: >>I not only agree with CM6 defeating H7, but I am currently proving that. I am >>using an K6-2/350 and PP200 both with 128K to test. Swapping programs every two >>games. Thus far 3-1 in favor in CM6 >When someone clearly has an axe to grind, it gives me doubts about the complete >fairness of the experiment. It's rather unscientific to try to prove a >hypothesis by doing an experiment. "Supposedly" the goal is to gather data and >then see if the hypothesis is confirmed or refuted (or indeterminate). > >It seems to me that such a mind set could even cause unintentional tainting of >the data. Perhaps you subconciously forget whose turn it is and run the program >you want to win on the faster machine more often. > >At any rate, I question the scientific validity of any experiment where the >experimenter states that they intend to prove a particular outcome even before >they see the data. > >IMO-YMMV Dann I do not get your point, from what I read it is not a experiment, it is just two programs playing against each other. I do not see him as having an axe to grid, maybe I have missed something. But all I read from it is that from the games he has played so far, he believes that CM6K will win. Whether he is right or wrong, I see nothing in the way he is playing these games that the data could be tainted or result seen as contaminated in any way. I just read your post Dann and I am wondering from what was written what you are actually trying to say in response to his post, I think you are a bit off the road. Maybe like I said I have missed something ,but what is wrong with what he is doing. Just because he stated that he is proving it, just means from the games he has played so far that he is actually proving his bet right.
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