Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:45:45 10/24/01
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On October 24, 2001 at 02:20:26, Kevin Stafford wrote:
>>
>>I also would not go so far as to say that comparisons are meaningless -- just
>>that the numerical value connections are unknown.
>
>Yes, but is there any way to determine what the connection is without playing a
>fairly large set of new games between members of each pool? If so, it would seem
>to me that at present comparisons are indeed 'meaningless'. If there is a
>statistical way to determine this without new games being played, then I'm of
>course wrong.
>
>>
>>An entity that is at the top of either list will be quite strong, and one at the
>>bottom not so strong -- that much is obvious.
>>
>
>Well of course! I wouldn't say this constitutes a comparison as the original
>poster meant it though.
>
>-Kevin
I'm not sure if it works mathematically, but I think it would be enough to
adjust the list at both ends (that is, adjust the rating of the best and the
worse entity listed by the SSDF to human ratings) to get accurate ratings for
the whole list.
Christophe
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