Re: [Heartlogic-dev] getting closer - a few comments on UI

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 02:00 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2005, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > Done.
> 
> Great thanks.  But
> 
> (a) the green rectangle with the stats is still there.

Oh, should be gone now.

> (b) the text has two problems in it, viz....
> 
> You judged this statement as <b >moderately believable</b >. We have 
> collected 2 ratings so far (including yours).  The average believability 
> rating is 0.50 on a scale of -1.0 (highly unbelievable) to 1.0 (highly 
> believable)
> 
> ...
>       b1: it has a <b > moderately belieevel</b> html typo.

Good catch.  Fixed.

> I think this should be the long version to be shown the first time.
> Then after it should be....
> 
> # of ratings so far: 2
> Average rating: 0.5 (-2 to 2)

Good idea.  I'll do that.

> ....<whiney voice on> ya know i kinda like to see the standard
> deviation.  People aren't THAT phobic of math science are they?

Hey, why not?  I think people are going to feel more interested and
involved if they are able to see the stats.

>   In
> spite of that, I would midly prefer a range of 1 to 5 over -2 to 2.
> Josh (or...ppst, Peter?, you there? (-:), can you break the tie here?
> So this is how it should look...
> 
> # of ratings so far: 2
> Average rating: 3 (1 to 5)
> Standard Deviation: 1.3
> 
> ...but like I said, Josh/Peter maybe you can decide this before I obsess
> too much.

For what it's worth, I changed it to [-1,1] because that seems like the
most canonical range.  WLJ also mentioned that we might try some other
kind of ratings besides Likert ratings so it makes sense, at least
internally, to store the ratings in normalized rating space.

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