THE BACK ROOM or ....

[Knestis]

NO.

While the information available to the ITAC is obviously crucial, what is really important is that the Process is not just math - the point that we couldn't get the CRB to understand before the schism. The math would require only 1/2 page to describe. The rest is about established practices to allow the ITAC to make subjective assessments of cars that evidence suggests are "special cases," and to do so in transparent, repeatable, documented ways.

The most important degree of freedom, which the Process grants to the committee to accomplish that, is in the power multiplier. Everything else is either simple math or a dichotomous measure.

K

EDIT - One can assume the gains, but don't assume that the result is the "final answer," if it's a car that doesn't appear to behave like those assumptions predict. This SHOULD be a small portion of all the cars but by the nature of how these things work, they represent a LARGE portion of the cars we talk about.