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Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
What do you think of wording it that way though: "buffistas have suggested numbers between x and y, but please put in whatever you think"?
I think the point/counterpoint posts of Sophia and Liese would do a better job of explaining what the implications were for each choice. What a high number for MVT would do, what a low number for Seconds could do.
The effect is kind of the same - trying to give quick information that encapsulates longer discussion, but putting it on the ballot that way is sort of prescriptive, whereas reading the positions would allow more room for considering it.
I haven't heard anyone proposing anything higher than 65.
Actually, I more than halfway meant it when I posted 97. The post was a late-night, not worded so as to be taken seriously, but I favor a very high MVT.
And I don't like the idea of "pick a number between 2 and 100, suggestions range from 10 to 65" -- it really seems designed to skew votes toward the midrange.
Edit: I should specify that I mean we should either pick 2-100 or 10-65, not that I want no upper and lower limits at all.
I'd also like to point out that asking for Buffistas to pick a number for MVT seems very likely in getting a different number in the box for every vote turned in.
What would we do then?
What would we do then?
Some form of average -- both mean and median have been discussed.
I mean we should either pick 2-100 or 10-65, not that I want no upper and lower limits at all.
That's what I was proposing.
I meant "take out the 2-100, put in the other buffista-suggestion numbers".
Some form of average
I recall Jon B posting that he'd be shocked if we did anything other than the mean.
What Ple proposed it using the "median" to check ourselves on the "mean". That is, if they are very different, I think there is a high or low number really skewing.
Okay, just making sure I was following. I'll return to my lurking now.
using the "median" to check ourselves on the "mean"
Seems sensible. And where's that dissertation on the Binary Walk or Octal Amble or Hex Hike or whatever, Gar? Enquiring minds want to know.
UTTERLY off-topic, and probably something that nobody wants to hear, but
DXMachina "Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier" Jan 1, 2003 10:15:03 am EST
Mieske's suspension ended on March 1st. Has anyone re-activated him?
