[Grassroots-l] [sugar] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

[Sameer Verma]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org> wrote:
>>> > BTW, the spreadsheet is at
>>> > http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p_Xhb6KcXLyEViA50CnCaDg&hl=en
>>>
>>> So by that metric, Terminal is the best activity. Huh?
>>
>>  Yeah.  Do these numbers mean anything?  What is the point of
>> averaging unrelated numbers?  Averaging lines of code score and
>> usability score almost looks like an idea of an innumerate.
>>
>> Teaching kids how to treat these scores properly would be a great
>> lesson.
>>
>> -- Yoshiki
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>
> The numbers are just fillers. They don't mean anything. The idea is
> for you guys to fill in numbers based on a metric and not because its
> popular on the list. Feel free to edit as needed.
>
> Sameer


Additionally, the list of factors on that spreadsheet were also "out
of thin air". If you look at Row 41, you'll see the list of factors
from G1G1. The weights can be adjusted as long as they add up to 100%

I hope this is making sense.

Sameer
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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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