At 5:50 PM -0400 4/10/07, David W. Fenton wrote:
And even that doesn't seem to me to be that much of an issue. Does a member of a major orchestra really arrive at rehearsal with not even 5 minutes to spare before getting ready for the baton to be raised?
Hi, David. The members of a major orchestra routinely show up ON THE PREMISES 30 minutes before call time, are unpacked and on stage to warm up 15 minutes before, and are already tuned and ready to start 5 minutes before. NO professional is going to piss off a conductor or an orchestra manager by being late. It's just part of professional protocol, otherwise stated as "If you're early you're on time, and if you're on time you're late!" And professional conductors show respect for their union musicians by starting rehearsal as the second hand passes the 12, and ending rehearsal the same, as Robert Shaw always did.
In other words, it may not be a 9 to 5 job, but a team player is on just as tight a schedule as a customer service rep, even though it might LOOK as if she has plenty of time.
But it seems to me that the law of averages ought to mean that out of 1,097 people there ought to be more than a few dozen who both appreciate it and are in a position to express that appreciation. What surprises me is how incredibly few those who liked it and showed it actually were.
I would put it differently. Since the incidence of attraction was NOT describable by a bell-curve, but was strongly biased toward indifference, this was NOT an example of "randomly normal human activity" and not subject to standard statistical analyses, which require a randomly chosen set of subjects. Wrong hypothesis for the experiment, wrong tool to use for analysis, and very poor experimental design, whatever the excuses for it happened to be. Which is pretty much what people have been saying, in different words.
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