Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:22:26 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 19:10:55, Rajen Gupta wrote: >Hi Fernando: i cant accept as evidence someone saying-''i feel this is >stronger'' or ''it appears to me stronger''.i need hard facts-in the form of >performances-against a given group of programmes the newer version has to score >better than the old one to be considered stronger-and i'm not asking someone to >conduct this tournament as people seem to think-all i'm asking is whether anyone >has already done such testing-whether these results are published and whether >the outcome of this testing has shown a progressibve increase in strenghth- > >My insistence on hard evidence is probably the outcome of my medical training >where the drug companies always claim that their latest product is better than >existing ones and as doctors we refuse to believe them unless they can prove >that this is so by clinical trials >> Clinical trials don't prove it either. They can only show that a correlational coefficient for the test verses the control is larger than probability would indicate (above ~0.3). The evidence you are seeking really doesn't exist in either direction(stronger/weaker) so what you are left with is opinions. There were a few experiments that were mentioned (e.g. Shep's site) but such experiments can hardly be called conclusive. <<
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