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- From: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
- Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Yes votes >= 200+2*No Votes
- In-Reply-To: sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:15:58 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:44:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.191558.28303@ennews.eas.asu.edu> sridhar@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman ) writes:
-
- I can give you atleast 2 examples for groups which passed by wafer
- thin margins and are far healthier than groups which passed by 400+
- votes.
-
- There is a direct correlation between a wide vote margin and a
- "healthy group" (if by this you mean high traffic). Existing groups
- which fail the proposed 200+2*No rule did not appear as often in the
- traffic "top 250" as those which pass; and when they did appear they
- had less traffic.
-
- Why should we ignore this correlation and establish our voting policy
- on the basis of your isolated counterexamples?
-
- By the way, I do not mean that voting policy should be based on the
- week's worth of traffic data I used. I consider those results
- preliminary and will follow up on both high- and low-traffic groups
- when the new arbitron data reach my spool.
-
- If it turns out that the vote margin is /not/ a good advance indicator
- of traffic, then we should not use it that way. In that case the 100+
- rule should be abandoned in favor of a advance indicator, such as the
- existence of a mailing list with a certain minimum number of sites
- receiving it.
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