From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp Date: 27 Oct 2002 23:37:12 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3244750632510418@naggum.no> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1035761833 7121 129.240.65.5 (27 Oct 2002 23:37:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Oct 2002 23:37:13 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:44837 * Paul Wallich | The results appear to be an almost perfect object lesson in why | statistical code metrics are useless without a deeper understanding of | what's going on. Both the tops and bottoms of the volume, "original | content" and thread rankings contain solid representations from the most | and least informative posters and threads of the past week. Well, what are the metrics you have used to determine your conclusions? | I'm not immediately sure how deep a parse you would have to do to make | completely reliable distinctions for this kind of thing. Readers would have to rate news articles. For the past few months, I have been working on a system to do this with the Norwegian newsgroup hierarchy. I may decide to repeat the experiment with other newsgroups. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.