@jeffcliff this also is a shot across the bow of everyone who complains about people "doing their own research" and leading themselves astray

> Dawes(1979) describes a number of cases in which such an equal weighting method has been used with apparent success. In those cases which the question can be asked, the equal-weighting model did better than the judge by himself. So great is the judge's unreliability that *we can do better than the judge(in most cases) by knowing only which variables ar erelevant*.

#thinkinganddeciding