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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Michael Cammer wrote:

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>>> Perhaps the answer is learn to compute things from the image and do
>>> statistics on the output.  Then the image can REALLY be reduced to just
>>> illustrating the articles, and each item of data will have a confidence
>>> limits associated with it!
>>>
>>
>> That might work for stuff for which the diagnosis is inherently
>> quantitative.  I wonder if such reductionism would work for things
>> that require cognitive image analysis.
>>
>> billo
>>
>
> If you use cognitive image analysis, it is imperative that you document
> the method so that it may be repeated.
>

Of course, as I noted in the "Photoshop ethics" subthread.  But the bottom
line is that not every diagnosis of value can be reduced to a number --
or rather to a non-contrived number.

billo
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