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Originally Posted by taustin
I guess I prefer a more scientific, or legal, standard to consider something to be evidence. You know, something other than "gut feeling."
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I think you're wrong to say it's gut feeling, because John Sargent's statement is based on actual sales data. He hasn't got enough data to be able to give a definite conclusion, so the conclusion may change, but nonetheless, he's basing his statement on actual data. To my mind, that means it's not a gut feeling.
This originally came up because you asked pdurrant if he had any evidence that removing DRM wouldn't reduce sales. He and I have given John Sargent's statement as evidence. Do you (or anyone else) have any evidence that removing DRM will reduce sales? I'd be genuinely interested to see evidence to support either side, since John Sargent's statement is the only evidence I've seen so far.
As a side note, since you mention a "legal standard" of evidence, I did jury duty once. The standard of evidence we were presented with was lower than this. It was, frankly, equivalent to two kids falling out and each blaming the other.
