I think the answer to the riddle posed by Shoto is contained in part right here.

Everybody's system of selecting winners adds an onion skin to the onion that we lable the "mug punters money". That money creates a "whole view" and a combined selection system that is more often right than wrong and is probably better than any one system by itself. Like it or not we are all collectively part of that whole and can not exclude ourselves from it. The "me" and "them" is a myth, for without "me" there is no "them".

We see this "onion skin" of opinion [or form study] working daily in many areas of life. Best car? Best Camera? safest boat? All public opinion from many deverse areas of experiencing the product [and that includes the product, punting], leading to a whole answer more often right than wrong.

But boy, when we get it wrong, do we get it wrong!

Cheers.

[ This Message was edited by: crash on 2003-09-03 07:46 ]