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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (42356)	3/23/2010 7:07:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

There is* a PURPOSE in that rule though.* Which is what I said right after the part you quoted. Which is why I can only "blame the CBO" in that sense, to a mild degree. Setting the rules that way minimizes intentional bias, but it does so at the expense of creating other serious problems in the analysis. I suppose the best way to do it is to keep such rules, but for everyone to generally either discount the CBO's analysis because of the problems, or perhaps try to adjust for them. Instead too often CBO analysis's get treated as "the score", as if they where established fact, and everyone else's claims are less useful, less important, and less likely to be accurate. The CBO can provide useful information, but they don't really have some special privileged position in the debate. What is said, and how its supported, should be treated as much more important than who says it.