On 8/28/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
And no one has proposed how we could have measured the effects without going ahead and doing it... there are just too many variables. We
I don't know what you mean by "without going ahead and doing it" - obviously you have to perform the experiment in order to collect data from it. I also proposed a list of data that could have been collected. I don't have any problem with the fact that no data were collected, however - there are scientific experiments, and there are lots of other experiments.
could have carefully quantified how much crap is created by anons vs non-anons, but we couldn't have quantified how many of the crapmakers would have simply made accounts.
Well, we *could* have.
Wikipedia won't be finished in a day...and some times we need to just try things out if we are to find good solutions.
Yep. My heart is not bleeding that anons couldn't make their usual truckload of crappy articles.
Steve