>>they are usually skewed and if you are not very careful on how to set your rating criteria and make sure that you only collect 'good' data you end up with something like DIGG - which might be the 'wisdom of crowds' but doesn't necessarily reflect a solid & robust judgment call.
Not letting someone see what the choices are and claiming ability to make a solid & robust judgement call is where skewing begins. >>identify the good ideas (bubble them up) and sinks the bad ones.. I think open source collaboration makes this statement a bad one in itself. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Pascal Finette <pfine...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi Brian, > > this is an interesting idea. In general I'm not a huge fan of > ratings - they are usually skewed and if you are not very careful on > how to set your rating criteria and make sure that you only collect > 'good' data you end up with something like DIGG - which might be > the 'wisdom of crowds' but doesn't necessarily reflect a solid & > robust judgment call. > > The interesting challenge for us is, to find a system which allows > Chocolate Factory to identify the good ideas (bubble them up) and > sinks the bad ones... > > Any input on this question is highly welcome! :) > > -Pascal > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=40933 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
