Re: [wsdm] Incorrect text in MUWS P2, Section 2.5.1

["Mark Peel" <mpeel@novell.com>]

  I agree "experiential" is unfamiliar and would look like a typo to
many readers.  "Empirical" fits Tom's original meaning pretty well.


Mark Peel
Web Services Infrastructure
Novell, Inc.

>>> Fred Carter <fred.carter@amberpoint.com> 12/7/04 4:30 PM >>>
Thus quoth Mark Ellison (~ 12/7/2004 5:23 PM ~)...

> Tom,
>
> my bad.  I made the change from experiential to experimental as a 
> readability change.  In my opinion, this change should revert.
>
> Knowing this, I'd probably still change to something like:
>
> "The ordering of situation categories is based on *operational* data

> showing relative importance of various types of events."

+1
my vote wouldn't change...

> Experiential is a funny word, imho.

>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
> Thomas Studwell wrote:
>
>> The text on line 329 should read:
>> "The ordering of situation categories is based on *experiential*
data 
>> showing relative importance of various types of events.",
>>
>> it currently reads:
>> "The ordering of situation categories is based on *experimental
*data 
>> showing relative importance of various types of events.".
>>
>> I don't consider this a show stopper but it does significantly
weaken 
>> the argument in favor of canonical situations.
>>
>> Thomas W. Studwell
>> Senior Technical Staff Member, Autonomic Computing Architecture
>> IBM Software Group
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>> studwell@us.ibm.com 
>>
>> "What marks the mind of the strategist is an intellectual elasticity

>> or flexibility that enables him to come up with realistic responses

>> to changing conditions... In strategic thinking, one first seeks a 
>> clear understanding of the particular character of each element of a

>> situation and then makes the fullest possible use of human
brainpower 
>> to restructure the elements in the most advantageous way." (Keniche

>> Ohmae, The Mind of the Strategist)
>>


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