Re: Update

["Joel M. Halpern" <joel@stevecrocker.com>]

Actually Dave, we do have one piece of evidence that the experience base is 
different.  The old rule guaranteed that the person had been to two 
meetings.  The new rule guarantees that the person has been to three meetings.
(I don't care whether in the most recent data sample all of the 2 out of 3 
people had actually attended 5 meetings.  The rules change still shifts the 
base assumptions one can make about a nomcom participant.)

Most of us believe that this helps the chances of the nomcom participant 
being better.
Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

At 10:47 AM 1/23/2003 -0600, Dave Crocker wrote:
> Thursday, January 23, 2003, 10:39:15 AM, you wrote:
> >> In contrast with the theoretical analysis, the empirical numbers we
> >> have been given show no serious difference.
>
> HTA> No serious difference in the *number* of eligible people.
> HTA> Which addressed the concern that some had that the pool would shrink too
> HTA> much, but tell us nothing about who those people are.
>
> ok.  at the least that means that we do not have any basis that the
> experience base is signficantly different.  hence it means that there
> is no basis that the pool of nomcom participants is better (or worse).