[CCWG-ACCT] W Currie and auDA comments to CCWG

Dr Eberhard W Lisse el at lisse.NA
Mon Sep 14 14:37:24 UTC 2015


Jones Day are a law firm hence they will write whatever they can get
away with for their clients.  There is nothing inherently wrong with
that, we just need to take this into perspective.

el

On 2015-09-10 10:04, Arun Sukumar wrote:
> I found this observation from Willie Currie very interesting:
> 
>     "A last point on this issue.  What weight of evidence should
>     be attached to an impact assessment such as Jones Day’s?  We
>     are not dealing here with an environmental impact assessment
>     where there is hard scientific data to include in the
>     evidence.  We are dealing with governance and accountability,
>     which is in the realm of the social and the political.  That
>     means that we are dealing with human behaviour in a complex
>     system with multiple variables, well beyond the purchase of a
>     randomised control trial.  Judging by the number of words such
>     as `would’, `could’ and `likely’ in Jones Day’s
>     analysis, we are primarily in the space of the speculative."
> 
>  
> 
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