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**Mike** · May 21st 07, 03:48 AM posted to rec.games.chess.misc,rec.games.chess.computer

In article .com, says...
On May 17, 1:27 pm, "David Kane" wrote:

If you are proposing a methodology (ranking players
according to move analysis), you can't simply
pull an algorithm out of thin air and pretend that it means
something. The burden is on the authors to *show* that
it is meaningful.

They have you idiot. It was a peer reviewed paper.

Having acted on both sides of the peer review process I can assure you that, because a paper has been published in a
peer-reviewed journal, it does not mean that the authors have necessarily:
a) proved the point of their thesis;
b) correctly applied statistical methodologies;
c) used logically correct methods of analysis to reach their conclusions; or
d) provided sufficient information, corroboration, or references within the paper to allow others to determine if they
have met all or any of a), b), or c) above.

Mike