[blml] ACBL NABC Casebooks

[Adam Wildavsky]

At 4:10 PM -0400 6/21/06, Eric Landau wrote:
>So... we again have a casebook with "expert commentary", the purpose 
>of which is presumably to review and criticize appeals results in 
>order to provide superior guidance to those who might be involved in 
>future appeals over and above the cases themselves.  Except that the 
>overwhelming majority of the contributors will be from the very ACs 
>whose decisions are to be reviewed.  I don't expect they'll be 
>particularly keen to criticize their own work too vigorously.

I've seen no evidence to support this assertion. Quite the contrary 
-- the panelists, whether AC members or not, have always seemed 
willing to forcefully criticize decisions with which they disagree. 
Surely you've noticed that I do so often. As an AC member I take it 
especially badly when an AC overturns a perfectly good TD decision.

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Adam Wildavsky  adam at tameware.com  http://www.tameware.com