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Old 03-06-2002, 09:41 PM   #1
feldon34
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Ok, so you've voted on your favorite fish (Well, 83 of you so far) and you want to know the results...

{Info about Weighted Results}
I am not going to post all of the information right now. Why? Because the poll is not "weighted" in any way. I can go and give a dozen fish a score of 10 and my opinion will have more weight than a person who just votes for a couple of fish, or who gives a broad range of scores.

I will post a graph (probably several) and data once I have gotten this all weighted. Basically, each person will have 100 points to contribute to the fish. You'll see. It will be snifty.

So if I do a simple average, as I will reveal below, the results are a bit misleading. One of the charts I hope to post here once I have the scores weighted will be a scatter plot, to show concentrations of votes for each fish. Even if there are a couple of very low or very high votes for a fish moving the average around, I'd like to show where the clusters are for each fish.

Did I mention I never took a Statistics course? I'm definately winging it.

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