This is irresistible..
Gordon Cramer has posted a ratings comparison between CM, TBT and his own blog, amongst others. He says that he hopes we will all learn something from the nine ratings, adding that it shows both our strengths and weaknesses and provides an opportunity for our improvement. In other words, use his blog as an example to aspire to,
because ….
… Cramer scored himself first in accuracy, fact finding and research, CM came second and TBT a distant third.
No mention however of GC’s early insistence that his expert research proved that this saddle-nosed fellow with a mouthful of bad teeth (Pavel Fedosimov) was the straight-nosed and substantially toothless Somerton Man. It still gets a chuckle in the right circles.
https://tamamshud.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-comparison-of-somerton-man-mystery.html
The Somerton Man .. 
You’re safe
Truth is always a defence for defamation
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Only 79 out of 90? that’s a let down.
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GC claims he had some ‘input’ in the AI result .. but the way I see it is that in order for the AI to come to such a wide and all-encompassing result for each blog it would have to had read every post and every comment on each one, in CM’s case we’re talking about many thousands of comments.
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Well, there may be a reason he’s had to rely on artificial intelligence. Me, I trust the real thing!
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Even if we believe AI is used, I’m always skeptical of any type of survey/analysis that is run by someone with a vested interest in the results, especially with very little transparency.
Firstly, you can construct the criteria in a way that benefits you, and tweak criteria to be vaguer or more specific as it suits. If you’re using an analysis tool (whether it’s AI or something less trendy) you can also run multiple times, excluding criteria that comes up bad for you, and continuing tweaking the “questions” until it finally spits out results that show what you want…..etc
TBH, I don’t really know why people even bother commenting on what he posts (unless they’re in camp Kramer) – all it does is keep his site in the conversation, when frankly, it’s a long time since it posted anything even remotely credible. We should all just stop giving him airtime – the one thing he understands is marketing (his blog is so prolific because he understands how to clone and reference and SEO and all – which you can tell by the ‘clone’ sites), and I’m pretty sure he’s a firm believer in “There’s no such thing as negative publicity”….
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Almost missed an ooportunity for my favourite line:
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity
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