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Re: We want to know what you think!
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:02:31 GMT
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TWS Garrison wrote:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Jake McKee writes:
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> > *** 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.
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> 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?
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 been voted on, I would think it would be a natural consequence that ideas that
had already been voted on would come up less often than ideas that had not been
voted on yet. [1]
Does that help?
Rick Clark
1. Please don't tell my high school English teacher that I wrote a sentence of
that length.
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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