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Impact Weighting - automatic lower bounds for Total impact #160

Closed timwintle closed 9 years ago

timwintle commented 9 years ago

(Thought while watching your talk..)

If the impact weightings are dramatically affected by having a total impact value at all, then a lower bound can be added for calculations, which would improve the accuracy of results where people have been able to enter activities..

For example for G+,

lower_estimate(total_impact) = max(plus_ones, reshares)

(Other bounds available for other tracking event types)

patt0 commented 9 years ago

Yes that is interesting and I am wondering about the incentives that it would embody, basically not encouraging GDE's to spend the time updating their activity details.

I need to spend some time designing an approach to automated data collection that is not a burden on the GDE's.

timwintle commented 9 years ago

I believe that if estimates used are strict lower bounds to what a user would enter manually (i.e. there's no way a user would be entering a lower value), then you definitely won't incentivise users to not update their information.

It might slightly reduce the incentive for users to actually manually update their information - but I'm not sure if that's a significant detriment.

patt0 commented 9 years ago

You are right no doubt. New scoring came live today. Let's set what Galen's over the next few days as I prepare some doc around the scoring and try to get a larger consensus a and tool (GAS) to get the data in.

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I believe that if estimates used are strict lower bounds to what a user would enter manually (i.e. there's no way a user would be entering a lower value), then you definitely won't incentivise users to not update their information.

It might slightly reduce the incentive for users to actually manually update their information - but I'm not sure if that's a significant detriment.

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