[Heartlogic-dev] Re: 3 ratings at a time

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 10:52 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> The new way of doing things for the stories - 3 ratings at a time: it 
> looks terrific!!!

Good.  I wasn't sure if the layout was going to work for people.

> I tried a few and discovered no bugs.

Knock on wood.  ;-)

> Now, I still don't quite get what you are trying to figure out with this
> jack and jill business.
> 
> First of all the language needs to be cleaned up.  "she wants the pale of 
> water for herself." makes it sound like she may be a selfish brat.  just
> say, "she wants a pale of water." or "she wants to fetch a pale of water."

I wrote it that way because I want to be specific about _whose_ goal is
under consideration.  If Jill wants to get a pale of water for Jack then
Jill doesn't have a selfish goal (No Goal) WRT the pale of water,
however, Jill does believe that Jack wants a pale of water.

Are you with me?

> maybe what you are trying to do is figure out a theory of what goals
> and anti goals people have/do not have?

Yes, a taxonomy.

>   if so, lets try to come up
> with a more compelling story/goal pairing than jack and jill with the goal 
> "fetch pale of water."  i mean if not, how do you respond to the 
> critique that this is study of obviousness?

Login and click on "Browse Stories".  This is the taxonomy of the goal
pairs collected so far.  What is not obvious is which stories will fill
in the rest of the boxes.  There are nine boxes and only two have
examples.

A goal of my study is to find examples for all combinations of goal
pairs.

> "jack wants jill to be his girlfriend."
> "jack is thirsty."
> 
> ...is this where you are going????

Uh, I'm not sure.  See "Browse Stories"

> You really really need to send a description of your research 
> question and/or hypothesis.

If I send what I have written so far, you'll look at it and stick out
your tongue and say "Ick."  Give me more time to polish it up.  ;-)

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