From: Charles O Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2006-09-11T11:49:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Research Methodology (RE: Real World Scalability and Ruby - Top 2 0

On 9/10/06, Peter Booth <pbooth@marketaxess.com> wrote:
>  Actually Joseph used one of the soundest research methods I know of. He
> published an obviously flawed "Strawman", didn't pretend it was anything it
> wasn't, and the wisdom of the group began fixing errors and filling in
> blanks. So, just like "Nail Soup", a basic seed is evolving into a matrix
> that has more information than any single one of us could contribute.

Except that he drew conclusions from complete guesses, which were
obviously slanted in particular directions. For all the guesses, it
would have been just as safe to guess "Java" or "J2EE" or even "Ruby"
but there wasn't a single such guess. That shows the research was
being conducted to prove a point...not very scientific.

Perhaps it can proceed from here as you described, but it starts off
on a bad foot to make random guesses that lean toward a particular
theory.

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