John Neiberger wrote: > > >>>> The Road Goes Ever On > 6/9/03 3:14:32 > PM >>> > >""n rf"" wrote in message > >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> The Road Goes Ever On wrote: > >> > > >snip for brevety > > > >> > > >> > One person's opinion. Have you any statistics to back that > up? > >> > have passing > >> > rates gone up or down? over what time period? with what > >> > technologies being > >> > tested? > >> > >> Again, I have the simple thought question - being perfectly > honest, > would > >> you want to trade your number for a lower one or not? The > prosecution > >rests. > >> > > > >Call me a pollyanna if you will, but I consider such a thing > as a kind of > >misrepresentation, and as such, I would not choose to be a > party to it. > >Which is easy enough for me to say because this is a straw > argument, one > >that cannot be honestly answered, because the fact is, no one > is ever > going > >to make that offer to you, me, or anyone else. > > I think nrf is using this as a hypothetical examle to reinforce > his point. > He's not implying that it would be reasonable or likely. I > feel that it > does a good job of illustrating the point. Many people--not > all, and maybe > not even a majority--give more weight in their own minds to > CCIEs with lower > numbers. I will admit to doing this myself sometimes, and > right or wrong it > demonstrates a bias that many share. This bias appears to be > more and more > prevalent among HR people and nrf is simply pointing this out > while > attempting to show that many of us, if we're honest, have the > same bias.
Excellent. So I'm not Cassandra after all. (For those who didn't catch the reference, you may want to read up on Greek mythology) > > John > > Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=70437&t=70151 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
