[WikiEN-l] on new article creation

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 8/28/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/28/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at 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.

"No data was collected"  ... What single piece of data did we *fail*
to collect? Okay.. there are a few things, but I've yet to see any
suggested here.

Collection isn't the problem. It's the effort it take to sit down and
make sense of the fire hose...