Re: MD The MOQ conference hoax

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DMB et al,

dmb says:
I don't think it was much of a hoax. <and much more that I mostly agree
with>

Scott:
I second that. I hadn't read the paper before learning it was a parody, and
so when I read it I was asking myself: would I have recognized it as a
parody? The answer is no, I almost certainly would not have. Even knowing it
was supposed to be a parody, I wasn't able to see it as such. It simply
restated certain MOQ examples and notions, and any excess in the form of
fulsome praise I would have taken as someone with less critical acumen than
I would have liked to see in a paper. So as a parody it was a failure, and
therefore as a hoax.

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