[EM] MDDA bugs by me

Warren Smith wds at math.temple.edu
Fri Oct 14 08:54:09 PDT 2005


As some have pointed out, I said some wrong things.  My error was caused by failingto
apprecciate the words "majority strength" defeat.

I would suggest emphasizing this to make it clearer - it is easy to misunderstand for
one not very used to EM discussion (which I am not).

Incidentally, I sent EM a post about "WMDDA" but I did not see it arrive.  Did it?
WMDDA is a method somewhat similar to MDDA but arguably better.  At the time
I wrote it I was still suffering from this majority-mental-problem, but
probably most of what I said about it remains true and WMDDA looks like it may be a better
method than MDDA (deluxe or not).

I still don't really understand the allergy by Ossipoff and Venzke to 
explicit approval (i.e. they prefer truncation to express approval) in ICA and
MDDA.  IT would be clearer if some explicit examples were provided to make the 
reasons for this allergy more apparent.



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