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To yield to non-quantitative reasoning when the difficulty in the measurement goes up, can lead to decisions like the one to launch Challenger space shuttle in 1986. Difficulty doesn't change the science or the questions we ask. Politics doesn't make something true.

I am not even talking about GCs, I am talking about the intellectual rigor we should use when discussing quantitative subjects. To do anything else is to practice magic.

Research papers on GCs will outline the comparisons and metrics they use to study GC algorithms.



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