In that case about another metric like seconds per non-basic word? The
Goodheart's force would be towards more concise legislation, though
perhaps at the expense of understanding Perhaps even something more
information theoretical like seconds per bit of information (though that
would probably be incomprehensible to most).
-t
Francis Davey wrote:
Its salutary at this point to remind ourselves of Goodheart's Law (all
too familiar to My Society types). What you don't want is to give any
incentive to amalgamate sections/clauses in order to reduce the clause
count in a bill or section count in an act, otherwise you will end up
with things like section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824:
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