Tommaso Dorigo, in reviewing an assessment scheme for science projects:
Ironically, in the same table Knuteson includes the SBFB ["Scientific Bang for the Buck" factor] of the experiment of flipping a coin: the SBFB of the experiment is zero, not that different from the global search for new physics at the LHC!, although, to be fair, zero and 0.001 are indeed quite different when you take the logarithm.
Hi Chad,
thank you - I lol'led as I re-read here what I wrote in my post.
As it turns out, the best humour is often involuntary. My wish of fairness was genuine, and was due to the fact that I felt I was using a bit too heavy a hand in criticizing a colleague's paper. Indeed, the logarithm of the SBFB as defined in Bruce Knuteson's paper is appropriate as a scale since that quantity varies by orders of magnitude across different experiments... Which does not take anything away from the humour of the sentence.
Cheers,
T.