From: Brian Marick <marick@visibleworkings.com>
Replying To: Tyler Close <tyler@waterken.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:57:33 -0600
Subject: Re: [e-lang] Types of Causality (was: Modelling Blindness)

On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 02:04 PM, Tyler Close wrote:
> On slashdot today:
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993168

The methodology described seems bogus. (But of course, I haven't read 
the original paper...) I talked to my wife about it.  She says she'll 
often collect a bunch of papers, read them, then type in her 
bibliographical entries by copying ones from some of the papers she 
read. It's easier to copy an entry than compose one yourself. So she'd 
propagate typos.

I see that others have made the same point on slashdot. 


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