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Originally Posted by DubaiSis
You would be looking at a computer monitor for probably 1 second. None of this is done by hand anymore. The computer will take 1000 girls (or whatever), go with the suggested quota and run the list. Then it will bump it up 1 and see what happens, then drop it 1 and see what happens, then up by 2, then 3, then 4, etc. It will run the scenarios and then drop in the quota additions and spit out 15 bid lists (or whatever). It would be like watching an Excel spreadsheet figure a math total. While there IS a process, it happens so fast, as far as you know, you ask for a total and it spits out a total.
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Ah, yes ... the devil is in the details. However, I believe that the reason so many folks still don't understand the process is because the "instant answer" is akin to the Wizard of Oz telling Dorothy, "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Just because the computer can do it for us doesn't mean we should lose sight of being able to know WHY one is a snail and ten is a crab! I am a math major, and I used game theory (which bid matching is based on) when I wrote my dissertation. One of my committee members said "you write like you are opening Russian dolls." Not one person on my committee was a math major, but yet I convinced them all that I should stand on the philosopher's stone and be hooded.
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