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Re: Thread scoring
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Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:28:29 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:
Larry Pieniazek wrote:
is it possible, and worthwhile to have a thread score?  Have a thread • score
be the average score of _rated_ posts in that thread?

Weighted average? a post rated 75 by 5 should contribute more than one • rated
75
by 1, no?

how about saying "avg score 75 (1 out of 500 rated)"?

No, that's fine, what I was driving at was that I would not add up the • averages
and divide by the number of posts, I'd add up the individual ratings and • divide
by the number of ratings... see the diff?

Or were you talking about that already?

heh, that was exactly what I meant by average of rated posts - not all
posts in the thread.

STILL not sure we're on the same page.  Suppose we have 3 posts. One got 5
ratings (plus the dummy) and has an average of 75 (dummy 50, 100, 100, 100, 50,
50) One got 1 rating (plus the dummy) and has an average of 75 (dummy 50,
rating 100) One got no ratings (other than the dummy) and thus is at 50.

What is the average? In a weighted average I'd throw out all the dummies, count
how many posts were rated (2) and take the real ratings,  sum up 100, 100, 100,
50, 50 and 100 (from the one real rating)100 to get an average of  500/6, or
83.  In a rated average post, I'd toss the 50 (not rated) and get an average of
75.

Which did you mean? I mean the weighted average of human ratings across all
posts that got at least one human rating.

++Lar


:)

Dan



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  Re: Thread scoring
 
(...) that's exactly what I meant. Add up all the ratings made by humans, and divide it by the number of human ratings. :) Dan (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Thread scoring
 
(...) heh, that was exactly what I meant by average of rated posts - not all posts in the thread. :) Dan (24 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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