On Sat, 12 May 2007, Todd Allen wrote:
Can anyone
actually derive Notability from neutrality, verifiability
and no original research in elegant and obvious steps? Or work toward
this?
Well, let's take a stab here.
2. From NPOV: "NPOV requires views to be represented without bias." If
the only source we have is first-party, the article will be inherently
biased, as it is nearly impossible to write fairly and neutrally about
oneself.
This reminds me of why Sherlock Holmes deductions don't work in the real
world. Holmes makes a plausible-sounding deduction that completely ignores
the fact that each step is not 100% certain, and the uncertainty accumulates
from step to step. If you string together ten steps, each of which is 90%
certain, your result will be useless.
The probability of a correct result is 0.9^10 or a little less than 35%,
But I would expect that Holmes would engage in some hypothesis testing
on the way, a practice normally spurned by those claiming that a
situation is obvious.
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