OT: Crazy Programming

[Greg Ewing]

Laura Creighton wrote:
> 
> The ability to rank something and whether it is objective or not are
> independent concepts.

But for the ranking to be objective, it has to be
independent of the person doing the ranking.

> I could find the 3 best, and the 2 worst with no trouble, and there
> was broad consensus in the room about this.  There was disagreement
> as to the precise ranking, however.

Which says to me that the ranking process is *not*
completely objective. Not because the process involves
people using their senses, but because the result
depends on who is doing it.

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