Subject: Re: Have Bear Catchers worked post-discovery?
In that case, what was the original intent for assigning weighted values (i.e., 4 for DBE, 2 for NH/NL, 1 for SMA), giving a range of 0 to 7, instead of a value of one for each indicator, giving a range of 0 to 3? It seems to me that weighted values complicate the system if they don't have any meaning.

It's just a familiar notation for anyone with experience in encoding bits and bytes as 1s and 0s. For some of us it comes naturally as a concise notation of a system's state. For others it may be confusing. I don't believe any weighting was intended.

Elan