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One for the timeline

One for the timeline

Posted Dec 6, 2010 12:56 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: One for the timeline by BrucePerens
Parent article: The dark side of open source conferences

You seem to be arguing by assertion rather than citation, but where do empathy disorders come into it?


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One for the timeline

Posted Dec 6, 2010 19:48 UTC (Mon) by Zomb (subscriber, #23391) [Link]

Agreed. While Bruce is mostly right about the social education and the results for the personal skills of many engineers, his conclusion is based purely on correlation. Which is not an appropriate way to find a proof; in fact, it doesn't usually prove anything.

Correlation "analytics" found that computer gaming is the main and only cause of school rampages, or that we need more (sea) pirates in order to get the climate stable again.

One for the timeline

Posted Dec 8, 2010 8:46 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Let it go, please.

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