Posted 2014-June-03, 07:01
Antrax, on 2014-June-03, 02:40, said:
Why on earth not use objective measures, instead?
The problem with use of objective measures is that the objective test must itself necessarily be arbitrary. It is fundamentally a subjective decision by BBO what factors and what weighting are applied. How are they better qualified to judge them than the user?
I have no objection in principle to objective measures. Nor to subjective measures. Whatever gets the job done best. Compatibility being a fundamentally subjective quality, I just thought that it called for a subjective measure to test it.
The use of subjective measures has one big thing going for it: If the user tweaks the parameters and makes matters worse, he only has himself to blame. Nor do you deny the user an opportunity to revert to objective measures just because subjective measures are available. He would always have the opportunity to reset to default settings.
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