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Re: Losing on Purpose to Gain Advantage
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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
... Since ranking is going to be imperfect, this argument is likewise imperfect; ...
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Dang - I was all coiled up and ready to pounce, but you took the wind out of my sails.
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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
... But I believe it's important not to try to manipulate rankings, and instead to play your best and let the rankings follow naturally from that.
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Yes - That is a legitmate viewpoint (in case you need anyone's opinion about it - I doubt you did  ).
I suppose the other primary approach is to tilt toward dealing with intentions before the system is announced; and then after it is announced, dealing with the actual implementation.
I hope that most folks would agree that there is room in FIRST for both approaches and that neither suffers from some great moral, ethical or logical flaw.
I think both groups use a perfectly reasonable set of ethics and create perfectly reasonable educational experiences for students who pay attention to which path is chosen, and why it is chosen; and who are (implicitly or explicitly) trained to understand that both paths exist.
Blake
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