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Re: Thread scoring
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:47:39 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Which did you mean? I mean the weighted average of human ratings across all
> posts that got at least one human rating.
that's exactly what I meant. Add up all the ratings made by humans, and
divide it by the number of human ratings.
:)
Dan
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