Lan Barnes wrote:
On Sat, March 29, 2008 1:14 am, SJS wrote:
Appeals to authority, especially absent authority, just don't sit well.
If they're an authority, they can argue with me, and if there's a good
reason they're an authority, they'll probably convince me.
How does my appeal to Unix authority have less weight than DB's appeal to
M$ authority?
This isn't an appeal to authority. IBM, Microsoft and Apple have done
bucketloads of human computer interaction research. The numbers quoted
are supposedly from several different studies.
You can claim that I don't have a reference for the studies, and you
would be right. However, if someone wants to look them up, the
Inference Group at Cambridge may be a good place to start.
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/is/
David McKay seems to base his research on evidence rather than opinion
as well as having functional code. Thus, he tends to have good references.
-a
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