Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 22:20:37 01/28/00
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On January 29, 2000 at 01:15:20, Christophe Theron wrote: [snip] >Actually my point was not about the 80% confidence. > >My point was about being serious about match results and knowing when you can >take them seriously and when you shouldn't. > >We see plenty of results posted, but it sounds like nobody cares about their >real meaning. Aye, and there's the rub. Did you notice the SSDF result that started out 7-0 and ended up 7.5-7.5? I guarantee if we saw a contest like that and the 7-0 result were posted here as a partial score, the spades would be out to bury the second program. "Stick a fork in prygram Y!! It's done! Hooray for program X, the new bone-crushing victor!" I see it almost every time a contest starts out lopsided. I think we agree strongly that it is mathematics that tell the truth. Our hearts lie to us. Our eyes lie to us. Our brains lie to us. But mathematics is a truthful queen that tells it like it really is. Even when it's not what we want to hear.
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