The crunch in all these cases is who is going
to do the real work? It's not difficult to imagine schemes
that all sorts of users would be interested in
playing with or trying out!
Beyond that, the problem has a statistical flavour
and we should be able to use our expertise to
focus on that. As I understand it, many users
would be interested to know
which postings
at a level appropriate to my needs
were highly rated
by people in my field
but this target population will (I guess) never be the
sampled population. Beyond that, there is
the question of sample size, both in terms
of #people and #evaluations on which anything is based.
A leading Stata person said to me some years ago,
"I don't know how anyone really learns Stata, as it's
far too big to master". Naturally, the problem is now
worse. I really am not clear that adding yet another
resource or thing to monitor is going to help overall.
Nick
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Maarten buis
> Just brainstorming: del.icio.us is, as I understand it, a way
> of sharing your bookmarks. There
> have recent request for a "the best of Statlist list of
> posts", and the standard reply is that
> individuals should save/bookmark the posts they find useful,
> since maintaining such a "best of"
> list would be to much work. Couldn't del.icio.us through ATS
> or otherwise be a sollution?
>
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