On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, inter alia:
>
> Maybe it's just me, but I cannot agree with the "ethical" stances taken
> dismissively by most of the thread. [...]
> I see no reason to limit the scope of their
> enquiry, even though the queries are fuzzy, and the results fuzzier. [...]
> Then again it's
> also a defense of tolerance and pragmatism.
I don't see it as an "ethical" stance to refuse to provide garbage, but as a
"pragmatic" one. Can I defend the results to my customers?
I get lots of mails like this defending "approximations", or as you put
it "fuzziness". The problem is, I don't think they're approximations. I
strongly suspect they're often closer to 5 or 10 times out. Think of it this
way and you'll perhaps realise why analog doesn't provide them.
--
Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England
"The new operating system will recover more easily from system crashes."
(Microsoft, aiming high with Windows Millennium)
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