Re: [Gen-art] Re: Gen-art review of draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt

2006-03-22 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Sam, in the gen-art meeting today, you asked me to read and reply to the long note you wrote to Elwyn. I'm assuming you mean this one. The discussion in the genarea meeting clarified quite a bit what you are trying to achieve with the draft, and was a very useful background to writing this n

Re: [Gen-art] Re: Gen-art review of draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt

2006-05-08 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Harald" == Harald Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> The primary reason you want to encourage meta-experiments is that a >> lot of the hypotheses you want to test involve delegation. For >> example I want to test the hypothesis that the right way to solve the

Re: [Gen-art] Re: Gen-art review of draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt

2006-05-10 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Sam, we have some differences of opinion on how these things work, and how they are supposed to work. But I'll try to be constructive. I think that in any experiment that involves giving someone the power to set procedures, there MUST be some words on how those procedures are set (the metapr