Re: correctness vs believability (was Re: [Heartlogic-dev] comments on story rating thing)

[William L. Jarrold]

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 14:39 +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 02:29 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> > > How correct is HAL?
> > >
> > > ...and have not believability ratings but correctness ratings, a la...
> > >
> > >         Completely Incorrect
> > >         Slighly Incorrect
> > >         So So
> > >         Slightly Correct
> > >         Completely Correct
> > >
> > > [except presented horizontally]
> >
> > Wow, uh, seems like a good idea.  Give me a day or two to digest it.
>
> I'm confused.
>
> Why does your dissertation consider believability instead of
> correctness?

Why?  see your answer below, I like the way you put it below.
I think I may have had other reasons in the dissertation but
they were prolly lamer.

> What is the difference between believability and correctness?
>
> For example, let's look at the Jack & Jill story.  The stats are
> positive for Jack/Goal with Jill/Goal and Jill/NoGoal.  Why not
> Jack/NoGoal with Jill/Goal?  Since the story doesn't specify the
> individual goals, I don't think there is a correct answer but there are
> believable answers.  Hence, I am inclined to leave the rating as a
> believability rating.  Or am I missing something?

Nope, I am missing something.

Because of my error, I have decreased my OHL salary by 40%.  My OHL salary 
is now $0.00/year.

Bill

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