On 8/28/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)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