[Olpc-open] [sugar] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
Thu Sep 25 18:31:35 EDT 2008


At Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:37:09 -0500,
Sameer Verma 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.
> >
> 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.

  I still don't get it...  Even if people edit the spreadsheet "as
needed", at what point is it going to start "making sense"?  The
question is whether things can be put on one dimentional axis in this
way.  As you also know, using numbers doesn't necessarily make it
"unbiased".

-- Yoshiki


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