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Subject: Re: Questions about test suites and rating lists (SSDF independent)

Author: Hans Christian Lykke

Date: 07:25:29 02/17/01

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On February 17, 2001 at 08:09:53, Aaron Tay wrote:

>On February 16, 2001 at 09:31:12, Hans Christian Lykke wrote:
>
>>On February 16, 2001 at 00:34:16, Aaron Tay wrote:
>>>2) Given all the complains about the uneven quality of Rating lists, what
>>>factors would you look for in deciding if a rating list is a quliaty one?
>>>
>>>Eg
>>>
>>>* Number of games
>>>* testing procedures [handling of bugs in book learning etc]
>>>* Quality of testers [Would fewer quality testers be better than lots?]
>>>* Transparancy [availability of games?, policy statements,audits? ]
>>>* Perceived indepedence
>>>* Hardware used
>>>
>>>
>>>any more? And how do the various rating lists either by organisations [SSDF],
>>>e-zines [e-bit, selective search] or single persons [eg Frank Quisinsky's list] compare acording to the citerias?
>
>>>It seems to me that SSDF seems to be the mostly superior in most areas, altough,they need to work on the perceived indepedence part..
>
>>I think that SSDF can not be more independent than we are.
>>Complete independent.
>>
>>Venlig hilsen
>>Hans Christian Lykke (SSDF)
>
>That's worthless if people [some anyway] don't PERCEIVE that you are
>independent.

When I am right about something, I normally don´t care a lot what other people
says.
If you ask people how far it is from USA to Russia, and give them the choices:
about 70 km, about 700 km, and about 7000 km, I think the most people will give
the wrong answer.
But I don´t care a lot!

Venlig hilsen
Hans Cristian Lykke (SSDF)
http://home3.inet.tele.dk/hclykke/



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