Re: Closed for submissions

Brian M. Scott <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:36:19 +0100, Jonathan L Cunningham
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Brian M. Scott <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(me)
If you read slush, decide what to buy, and what you buy is
always better than anything you've rejected,

That's the problem: at some point you're going to find that
what's available doesn't let you produce an issue without using a
story that (you think) isn't as good as one that you previously
rejected. It might take a while, but in the long run it appears
to be statistically inevitable.

Is that the same as "if you throw a thousand coins,
eventually they will all come up heads"? Or am I still
missing something?

Either you're missing something -- and I truly have no idea
what -- or you're making some very strong uniformity
assumptions about the distribution of quality and story-type
in the slush over time. I was going to go into more detail,
but I see that Zeborah has concocted a toy example nicely
illustrating the point.

Which I've replied to ... I agree it's the same point, and answers
my question as to what you meant.

That's progress of a sort: at least we agree on what we disagree on.

:-)

Jonathan

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