From: David Lucifer (david@lucifer.com)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2003 - 11:57:53 MDT
[Casey] Least decisive? What does that actually mean? That I can't make up my mind about someone? I'd actually say it's appropriate in regards to me not knowing everyone on the Meridion. To me a 5 indicates neutrality; I neither have regard or disregard for those individuals. Many of the people on the Meridion do not post frequently enough for me to warrant me giving them a different ranking. Until they do, I plan to continue giving people a 5.
[Lucifer] The neutral rating does have two related interpretations: lack of evidence, and balance of evidence. The same is true in Bayesian statistics: if you lack evidence for a hypothesis you give it a probability of 0.5. If you have equal amounts of evidence for and against a hypothesis, you still give it a probability of 0.5.
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