i Subject: RE: BS: Intelligent comments From: Amos - PM Date: 03 Jan 08 - 04:16 PM
What are the tests for complete data?
No internal inconsistencies in your information, for one thing -- as these are often signs of omitted data.
The data you have is not blindly accepted from authority without some sort of reality check.
The data aligns with new information in the area of interest as it is acquired.
The sequences make sense -- the flow of events in time is understandable and consistent with what you know about how things
makes an interesting comparison with this from bb's original Washington Post quote:-
i The one sentiment you don't often hear is uncertainty, as in: "I'm not sure what to think" or "I don't know enough to give a good answer"
They are,imo, good tests Amos, and I think only all-knowingness (aka omniscience) can have complete data. We people, on de udder hent, are necessarily limited. The tests go a very very long towards the light tho' they are flawed,IMO. (the curse of a little philosophical and other trainings.)
Maybe the moto of the internet, and of print too, might be "I don't know enough but that doesn't stop me going on and on, and believe me, I know what I'm talking about."