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[tipper|DES|]

I rather think you’ve missed the intended humour Zarj ;) but sure, statistics have their place.
However, statistics are only as good as the input data and then of course you have to interpret the results.

What is interesting is a great many mathematical proofs were brought about by someone “feeling” something was true and then setting out to provide a mathematical proof to back that feeling up.
A great many so called proofs start at “experience shows us” and develop from there.

Basically, no girlie feeling; no proof.

So, I’ll tell you what, I’ll do the girlie feeling bit because it’s in my comfort zone and someone else is more than welcome to come up with the proof. The fact that any proof produced:
a) wont be properly understood by the majority
b) will be disputed by others
c) will be ignored for partisan reasons by some.

makes this whole business of proofs and blacklists a bit of a nonsense which is why I imagine Brahma, the head of science here gave up.

The current policy seems to me to be let the discrete cheats play because it’s too much aggravation to remove them from the game.

Its not a policy i agree with though.