[blml] Chicago Casebook Posted

[Steve Willner]

> From: "Marvin French" <mfrench1 at san.rr.com>
> A course in statistics isn't needed to understand that small sample
> sizes have very little significance.

This is of course a _quantitative_ question.  Depending on what you want 
to establish, polls may or may not be significant.  More important, as 
someone pointed out in an earlier thread, it may be the reasoning, not 
the conclusion, that is important.

>  Player polls should never have been instituted and should be abolished.

The advantage of player polls is that the person answering need not be 
biased by knowing about UI or what the successful action was.  That's a 
real problem for ACs: members can see what was successful, and it's easy 
to convince oneself that one would always choose the successful action.