Statistics (RE: The "late surprise" problem)
Scott W Brim
swb at employees.org
Sat Mar 22 13:47:52 CET 2003
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 07:32:11PM +0100, Bert allegedly wrote:
> When I see this (in terms of IDs submitted in the weeks before
> teh IETF:
> > >
> > > Week 1 90 12%
> > > Week 2 82 11% (Initial cutoff)
> > > Week 3 194 26% (ID Cutoff)
> > > Week 4 385 51%
> >
> Then it seems clear to me that that is a BIG scaling/size problem.
> There is no way people can do due dilligence in reading 51% of
> the documents (relevant to him/her) in the last week before the
> IETF.
The approach I took recently was to put out a version a month before the
meeting, and then put out a corrected version just before the meeting.
I don't like it because of the increased load on the secretariat, but I
haven't come up with a better way of working. Perhaps the idea of
limiting "presentations" would work. Perhaps moving the deadline even
further back.
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