On 9 Apr 2016, at 6:19 AM, Brian E Carpenter
<brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
I do think one possible outcome needs to be added:
X. That the results of the experiment suggest that the changes made
in Section 2 are damaging and should not be applied again;
I regard this as unlikely, but I disagree with the comment that the
experiment is bound to succeed. I can think of a number of failure
scenarios, several of which would cause the NomCom chair to abort
the process.
My comment was that anything short of a disaster is bound to be considered a
success. IOW an outcome that is somewhat worse than the current situation will
be indistinguishable from success.
Yoav