On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I disagree - the null hypothesis is that the gain from lobbying isn't > worth the cost, not that the gain is zero. (Cost includes far more > than just monetary cost, of course.) Ah, then the proper experiment would have been for Wikipedians not to black out enwiki for a day and see how effective that was in changing the debate? Because, as you know, the blackout did entail a significant non-monetary costs. The trick, of course, is that political experimentation of this sort is similar to human experimentation generally -- the risk is that the experiment, for all you learn from it, leads to negative consequences down the line. My own view is that the blackout was unquestionably the right thing to do, and I'm hugely proud to be associated in my own small way with the people who took the risk of making our voices heard this time. --Mike _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
