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<blockquote data-quote="HerefordSire" data-source="post: 640708" data-attributes="member: 4437"><p><em>DOC HARRIS....I think the masses want to believe in the system more than they do. An excuse I read all the time is accuracy and age of animal or quantities. Any excuse will do though. Same result. Fill in the blank. I believe it is too abstract for the masses to grasp and the system almost demands blind faith.....the data is multi-dimensional and is hard to structure tabularly. On top of that, the search tools afforded by the AHA in this case, are difficult to obtain data efficiently to find patterns or test reasoning. In my view, the math should work perfectly if the world is perfect such that everyone is 100% ethical. Even this value could be compensated for within a high degree of accuracy after testing and tweaking. Also, if the majority of breeders find this too abstract to put faith in, the system won't work because it behaves like a self fullfilling prophecy...almost behaving like a magnet. The closer you get to it, the more force it pushes or pulls. If you stand back, and believe, it will work. But....as you can see, the opposite is occurring where a breeder group pays $50K for low EPDs and an individual $2.5K for high EPDs.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HerefordSire, post: 640708, member: 4437"] [i]DOC HARRIS....I think the masses want to believe in the system more than they do. An excuse I read all the time is accuracy and age of animal or quantities. Any excuse will do though. Same result. Fill in the blank. I believe it is too abstract for the masses to grasp and the system almost demands blind faith.....the data is multi-dimensional and is hard to structure tabularly. On top of that, the search tools afforded by the AHA in this case, are difficult to obtain data efficiently to find patterns or test reasoning. In my view, the math should work perfectly if the world is perfect such that everyone is 100% ethical. Even this value could be compensated for within a high degree of accuracy after testing and tweaking. Also, if the majority of breeders find this too abstract to put faith in, the system won't work because it behaves like a self fullfilling prophecy...almost behaving like a magnet. The closer you get to it, the more force it pushes or pulls. If you stand back, and believe, it will work. But....as you can see, the opposite is occurring where a breeder group pays $50K for low EPDs and an individual $2.5K for high EPDs.[/i] [/QUOTE]
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