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Ewan MacMahon wrote: >> It's not just Australians who see us as a bunch of whinging poms; we have that reputation in Europe too. >> > Fair enough. > I wonder if that epithet also applies to the Welsh? > In short, it seems to me that we're claiming that things are in progress > when they're really not just to massage the stats, and doing so at the cost > of useful information. If the EGI structures are such that doing so is the > most rational course of action available to us, then I suppose we'll just > have to live with it, but it's still dodgy. > I think a pinch of salt is needed to digest quantitative metrics derived from tickets, because the work is hard to measure properly. Steve -- Steve Jones [log in to unmask] System Administrator office: 220 High Energy Physics Division tel (int): 42334 Oliver Lodge Laboratory tel (ext): +44 (0)151 794 2334 University of Liverpool http://www.liv.ac.uk/physics/hep/