2nd February 2006, 3:02 PM
Indeed. Poor success rate. Testing testing testing. No one has respect, or desire, for scientific testing of government policy to see if they actually have the intended effect.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)