On 6/3/2015 10:13 AM, Toerless Eckert wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 10:04:05AM -0700, Joe Touch wrote: >> Until they can conclude "no candidate qualifies", their decisions will >> always include noise that renders much of their careful deliberation >> irrelevant. > > Was that your feeling when being NomCom and looking at the NomCom > decisions from the outside ?
It's the feeling I get from seeing the NomCom decisions, certainly. > My NomCom experience was not one of noice rendering decisions irrelevant. > > I think in the opposite, NomCom members try to assess which input they > consider to be noise and can therefore ignore. Again, NomCom can try to reduce *its* noise to zero, but that doesn't mean they're not picking "the best of the best of a set picked by another very noisy, random process". I.e., carefully tuning your radio to 101.3 FM based on a very precise consideration of the desired frequency won't help unless there's a station there. It's very easy to precisely tune to white noise. Joe
