Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/25/06, Stefan Sittler kiaparowits@gmail.com wrote:
Instead, it's an experiment of indefinite duration with analysis (of an unknown kind? where is this analysis described?) presumably being done by some person or persons, probably, and the results to be revealed at some later unspecified date.
Think of it as a "trial" or a "change with unspecified duration", rather than an "experiment", and the pain will go away.
It doesn't, because "trial" is still just as misleading as "experiment" without some plan for evaluating the trial's results and "change with unspecified duration" is just a euphemism for "change with indefinite duration."
I don't have any fundamental problem with making this a permanent change provided a rigorous analysis actually shows that it helped the situation. I'm told that an analysis has been done. So there's an easy and obvious way to make me quit complaining about this issue.