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Re: We want to know what you think!
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Fri, 20 Jul 2001 00:50:38 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Jake McKee writes:
> *** Why do we only see 10 ideas at a time, rather than all ideas? ***
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> Below, I have copied some of the text from the Help/FAQs in the survey
> itself. Basically, the way the survey tells us what ideas are truly the most
> popular is by "random" sampling of all the pool of ideas. The ideas shown to
> you are both randomly and logically selected to make sure that all ideas get
> their fair share of face time.
Maybe I've been taking too many CS courses lately, but I don't think "both
randomly and logically selected" makes much sense. Anyway, I don't trust the
random number generator that the back end is using for this "randomness": in
the first part of the survey, I accidentally reloaded the page[1], and an
option I had particularly agreed with was not on the new list of choices. I
reloaded several (>5, probably >10) times before I was able to select that
choice again, and kept seeing mostly the same choices over and over again
(except, of course, the one I wanted). When I had chosen and came to the
results area, I saw many choices I had not seen before. Perhaps the choices
presented to me were based on my demographic?
TWS Garrison
[1] I had trouble finding the "add" button, since whoever wrote the preceeding
page made the pop-up window just too small to see that button, although not too
small to have any other discernable effect.
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| (...) I don't think a computer programmer would have phrased it, "randomly and logically", but if the system tries to (logically) give each idea the same amount of face time, and does so by selecting (randomly) from the pool of ideas that have not (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Wow, sounds like quite a few of you are giving us your feedback! That's terrific! There have been a couple of questions that have popped up about how the survey works, and some issues with the survey itself. Let me try to address them as best (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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