On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 08:44 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > - If you take a legal/decision standpoint (where legally a decision > must be made based on uncertain data - see particularly natural > resource management for situations like this - a court CAN > determine a likely outcome and make it the legal reality; for > example by the court making a fair choice itself or delegating to > the recordkeepor. > > Choose your statistical worldview!
Of course, the actual answer is "whatever ends up self-ratifying"; in a way, self-ratification means that as long as you can convince enough people that the choice was random, it will eventually become the correct choice, even if it wasn't. -- ais523
