On Mon, April 29, 2013 12:39 pm, Sam Hartman wrote: > For what it's worth, I'm not finding the current discussion is providing > me useful information for making decisions. It doesn't really matter to > me whether the problem is selection of WG chairs or selection of > IAB/IESG/IAOC after WG chairs are selected. I think it is valuable to > attempt to improve both situations in parallel, and the sorts of > conclusions being drawn from the statistical discussion we're currently > having cannot possibly change my opinion on that issue. > > I'm not saying that my mind is closed to being changed; simply that I've > considered all the possible conclusions that I think could be drawn from > the analysis being considered and from my standpoint they don't affect > how I'd feel about various proposals that could be brought forward. Sounds to me like you have the cart in front of the horse. You already have in mind various proposals (interestingly left unstated) and are looking for data that can justify them being brought forward. Apparently, this data does not help you justify these proposals so you find no use discussing in it. Maybe we should let the data drive the proposals instead of the other way around. Dan.