Not one of us thought that here mate. If I may ask, If all your concerned about is 'effectiveness' exactly what in the training convinced you of this?
No, all we're saying is that the sources you're copying and pasting from are rather flawed... so there isn't much indication that you're really in a position to make an informed decision or argument, honestly. Still, we'll see if things have improved when you return in a few days...
I confidently predict a rant about nothing at all followed by some sort of criticism about us all being "keyboard warriors" and "training for real life" thrown into the nix
It's more of a courtesy thing Beastrage. By copying and pasting the info as a post it makes it look like the content of the post is your own thoughts, ideas etc. At least by crediting the site you got it from you acknowledge the works of others and avoid any mistakes being attributed to your own lack of understanding, although of course posting the info to begin with anyway does that to a degree. If your only concern is effectiveness then I have to wonder why join this discussion in the first place? The majority of it has been about the background of the systems. Effectiveness has been left on the side lines for the most part. So why are you here? As for knowing about the background of a system well if you read the thread you will see the positive aspects of why this is good to know.
This too, it has three parts the link for the following part are at the end. http://www.koryu.com/library/gbuyens1.html