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Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:34:17 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
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> > I have no idea why the guesses were marked down,
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> "Marking up" or "marking down" is a figment of the imagination.
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Everything I snipped I agree with, and I'll try and use better terminology -
less than average/better than average?
Richard
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 | | Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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| (...) Hmm, I wouldn't assume that 50 is an average. 50 is 50, whatever 50 means. 50 is just a midpoint between 0 (lowest) and 100 (highest). An average article might be 63.262 to one reader and 43.828 to another reader. We might strive for 50 to be (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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| (...) "Marking up" or "marking down" is a figment of the imagination. The initial score of 50 shown by the webserver is simply the result of a single value 50 in the average. If an article is rated 30 by someone, it hasn't been "marked down" to 40 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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