Hi All, I'm very familiar with the argument that we should do a two pictures comparison: in fact essentially everyone in mySociety seems to be against me on this - trust me, I feel the heat.
In the first instance I leaned away from pairwise because a) it doesn't show you how good your prediction skills are compared with other players b) I thought it would take more plays than my spec to to get 217k images usable ratings. Can someone mathematical tell me how many 'plays' of a pairwise game it would take to get any useful results (according to any definition of useful you choose)? I am no mathmo and might have got this quite wrong. I didn't stop Harry half way through development and make him dump what he'd done so far particularly because I don't think that either my argument or the other side is especially strong when it comes to confidently assessing which one will be played more, leaving aside the quality of the outputs, or the number of plays required to get a useful dataset. Yes, Kittenwar is hugely successful, but so was HotOrNot. In an ideal world we'd conversion track players arriving at the homepage of the game, 50% given out of 10, 50% given pairwise, but that'd take ££. FYI 2,916 grid squares have been done (ie rated at least 3 times) so far, of 217k in the database. That's 1.34% of total, over one weekend with no publicity and without the developer even being happy with the state of the game. Is that good or bad - not sure. best, Tom 2009/4/6 Harry Metcalfe <[email protected]>: > Hi Keith, > > That's up to Tom -- I am a mere minion :) > > Harry > > > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:01 +0100, Keith Garrett wrote: >> 2009/4/3 Harry Metcalfe <[email protected]>: >> > http://games.mysociety.org/scenic/ >> >> I agree with the other comments about it being hard to >> rate when you have nothing to compare it too. Lost >> interest very quickly (I ended up rating more on >> Kittenwar after someone mentioned that). I think a two >> image selection like that would work much better. >> >> Keith. > -- > FYI: > > I no longer use [email protected]. It will still work for the time being > but my new address is: > > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
