Re: Grand Prix/Worlds-Some Spoilers

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/02/03 
   at 10:25 PM, Sandra Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Darby Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Oh...this is so fun!.....Chait and Sakhnovski not in the final?
>> tragic!....i'm no expert but I think that this new scoring system has
>> finally put them in their place...

>Uh, C&S didn't qualify for the final last year, either, so you can't
>blame/credit this on the new scoring system.  In any case the CoP seems
>to me to be just as political and open to manipulation as the ordinal
>system, and perhaps more so, because of the secret judging and lack of
>accountability.

>-Sandra the cynic

Where's the accountability in the interim ordinal system? Secrecy is not a
new feature brought in just for CoP (it's a hold-over). Even without
secrecy, there was damned little accountability under the old ordinal
system. Anything could be "justified" and you could cheat in plain sight.
Now at least we can see and measure what they're doing; we just don't know
who's doing it!

--
Chris M. Hall, Associate Research Scientist
Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan

Specialization is for insects