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UniStuttgart-VISUS / damast

Code for the DH project "Dhimmis & Muslims – Analysing Multireligious Spaces in the Medieval Muslim World" (VolkswagenFoundation)
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Default aspect of Confidence #65

Closed tutebatti closed 2 years ago

tutebatti commented 2 years ago

Religion confidence is the default aspect visualized when in Confidence mode. What is the reason for this? Should we explain the reason?

mfranke93 commented 2 years ago

I cannot find where we discussed this, so I assume it was in one of our meetings (a long time ago, before you (@tutebatti) were involved). It might also be a case of:

I (@mfranke93) am just going to set it like this for now, because we need to start somewhere. I then ask everyone else if that is okay, and never get any negative feedback or different suggestions, so it stays with my initial choice.

That kind of thing has happened in a few places, and in most cases, I either get asked to change my initial, default behavior (like: show the qualitative timeline by default), or it stays as it is because no-one objects (like: the default layout of views).

Maybe @rpbarczok has a good rationale. Otherwise I don't see any reason to explain the reason. Something has to be the default.

tutebatti commented 2 years ago

Something has to be the default.

True, but I think @rpbarczok et al. will explain in the Prolegomena that mostly, a low level of certainty regarding Religion confidence can be avoided by using the group which is higher in the hierarchy instead. Right?

rpbarczok commented 2 years ago

Well it's true. It is one of the cases of Max just setting a default and never got any negative feedback. It is hard to foresee what the most common interest of future user will be, so there is no rationale here so far. Since you have to switch on the confidence view on purpose anyways, I think a user will have already an idea of what you want to achieve. At least that's how I used it. Therefore I never thought thoroughly about it. Additionally, using the confidence view makes only sense (in my opinion) when you switch on all confidences, so you have to go astray from the defaul anyway.

tutebatti commented 2 years ago

Additionally, using the confidence view makes only sense (in my opinion) when you switch on all confidences, so you have to go astray from the default anyway.

I think there's a misunderstanding. What is meant with "default" here is where the eye symbol is set in the Confidence view, not what checkboxes in that view are checked.

Other than that, I would then go with what you stated: if there's really no obvious rationale, something has to be the default and there's nothing to explain.