for the love of god, will somebody -- anybody! -- please pull piggy off his "confidence in page" project over at distributed proofreaders... please! anyone! i sincerely believe that piggy is well intentioned... but... the whole thing has been a disaster all the way through. and now he's proposing an even bigger waste of time:
please have the good sense to say "no" to this stupidity. (and for those of you out there who don't know the issue, but take offense at my label of "stupidity", before you bitch, go and actually read the "research" that has been done and then come back and _explain_ it to the best of your ability. because i understand statistics -- took it in grad school -- and i can assure you that these statistics are entirely bogus.) *** as i have said, many times now, time after time after time, there is an _excellent_ way to determine "confidence" that it is not worthwhile to spend more time looking for errors on a page, and that's when 2 people have checked the page and found no errors. or if you wanna be even more certain, draw the cutoff line when _3_ people fail to find any errors... and the easiest way to put in place a "roundless" d.p. system is to simply set the number of rounds to a very high number (such as 11), and then automatically mark a page as "done" in a particular round if it matches exactly the last 2 rounds. (or, to be stricter, the last _3_ rounds.) -bowerbird