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
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