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Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:42:53 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
> > "Marking up" or "marking down" is a figment of the imagination.
> Everything I snipped I agree with, and I'll try and use better terminology -
> less than average/better than average?
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 an average, but I don't think that 50% of all articles will end
up <=50 and 50% will end up >=50.
50 could be thought of as "typical" or "average" or "half the way insanely
great." 90 could be thought of as "90% of the way to insanely great" or a
10% feeling that it wasn't useful. 10 could be thought of as "10% of the way
to insanely great" or a 90% feeling that it wasn't useful.
The numbers are just numbers on a linear scale, and you can feel free to
put whatever interpretations to them that you like. How strongly do you feel
that some article was useful to you? How strongly do you feel that the world
(or your own personal world) would be a lesser place without that article?
--Todd
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| (...) 50 Means "average" to me - 0 means "pants", and 100 means "insanely great". The focus being on what the individual thinks, rather than the application of the mathematics. It probably depends on context - saying "Why did someone mark my post (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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| (...) The problem I see with the rating system is that if it is something totally subjective and each person who rates an article can use whatever method and scale they feel like to assign ratings, then the rating system seems to me to be close to (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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