On 1 Jun 2004, at 8:44 am, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
Just to make things even more exciting I have calculated this table using a simple trimmed mean where a single 'best' and a single 'worst' rating are excluded and the remainder averaged. Since I'm throwing away two scores for each book each book has to be rated a minimum of five times rather than three.
There are now 1416 book ratings by 23 users
....<snipped link + results>
Couldn't you include the ratings we already did for .... eh ... forgot who it was <embarrased>. These must be in the archives somewhere and most of the people voting then are still here. I know that at the time a lot of people made an effort to vote the listed books and it would be nice if that effort wouldn't go into the void like so many of those things. Doesn't Steve have a copy?
Erik tried to get a book-rating thing going in 1998 but "Evidently, the list was too long or my instructions were too bad, because I only got 4 or 5 replies. It didn't
seem worth posting the results."
Reggie Bautista brought up the idea again in 2001, and Erik tried again, but that fizzled out too.
That's why when I decided to have a go I made it an open-ended interactive web-page, and just let it run itself (the previous efforts involved mailing in votes, deadlines and such as I recall, which just seemed to be too much effort for people to get around to (me included)).
I'm afraid you'll just have to vote again :(
This time they aren't going away though. I even regularly back up the database off-site, and the whole gubbins could be moved to another server quite easily if disaster struck.
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