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Old 04-01-2024, 03:40 PM   #12
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I try to stay far away from discussions on standard deviation, due to memories of math teachers past. I play with ratings from 1-100, because that makes sense to me. What does not make sense is the possibility of a rating above 100. For one thing, you can't (presumably) have ratings under 1, to balance that out. Second, I understood the whole point of a scale, whether 1-100 or the archaic 20-80, to be that all data points would fall somewhere on that scale, distributed (grrrr) according to some formula. So, of course I turn off ratings over 100; but then it bugs me that they are still out there, and some of the guys rated 100 are actually better than others, and wouldn't I want to know that? Math guys, explain please!
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