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[richard.hills at immi.gov.au]

Eric Landau:

>In order to properly meet their L40B full disclosure
>obligation under Nigel's "standard system" proposal,
>99.99% of partnerships would need to achieve a mastery
>of the details of that system at a level well beyond
>their understanding of the system they have chosen to
>play.

James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds, page 183:

"Berkeley political scientist Chandra Nemeth has shown
in a host of studies of mock juries that the presence
of a minority viewpoint, all by itself, makes a group's
decisions more nuanced and its decision-making process
more rigorous.  This is true even when the minority
viewpoint turns out to be ill-conceived."

Richard Hills:

So the ill-conceived bee-in-bonnet hobby-horse views of
Nigel Guthrie (and Herman De Wael) have caused postings
by other blmlers to be more nuanced and rigorous, such
as the excellently nuanced point propounded by Eric
Landau (with John Probst concurring).

:-)

Furthermore, it is not always the case that Nigel's
minority viewpoints are ill-conceived.  For example,
Nigel validly buzzes with his bee-in-bonnet assertion
that the 1997 version of Law 76 could be substantially
improved in the next edition of the Lawbook.


Best wishes

Richard James Hills, amicus curiae
Level 6 Aqua Training Suite, DIAC
02 6225 6776

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