Talk:Delphi effect
Neologism. SWAdair | Talk 10:48, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Delete or redirect to The Cathedral and the Bazaar. —Rory ☺ 13:27, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
Keep. I wrote the article in question, and it's not a neologism to me. It has been quoted at me many times over the past few years, especially in the context of management training, and I was surprised to find only two references on a Google search. In the manner in which it was used, I expected to find a corpus of evidence at least as good as Myers-Briggs and Belbin. Documenting its lack of existence in a widely used reference work such as Wikipedia may help prevent management 'gurus' from treating it as fact and hence stop them from promulgating near, if not complete, falsehoods in this regard.
Eric Raymond has not claimed authorship of this concept, simply reporting what he heard, so I believe the concept to have had long and separate existence from his work "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" in at least both the USA and UK.
What would be good is if someone could reference a peer-reviewed study of the effect that shows it to be real - somehow I don't think one will be found.
Remember that 'Wikipedia is not paper', so it's not taking up needed space. I believe that documenting that something commonly believed to be true 'the Delphi Effect' is actually false helps improve the quality of the sum of human knowledge.
194.6.81.93 15:19, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Delete, how this is supposed to differ from standard statistical practice is quite beyond me. A sample of size n reduces the deviation by sqrt(n). Big samples good, small samples bad. See standard error (statistics). GWO 15:39, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)