Yeah, that’s the fear in changing. My main message is to use zero if you don’t really care. 3 is a valid vote to say, if we had infinite talks, I wouldn’t mind
seeing this one.
We’ll also need to look by categories. I’m finding that you guys aren’t excited about certain categories and that’s skewing things so that few of the talks
in that category get selected. It’ll be a balancing act which is why we’ll go several times through the data and make sure we have a very good and balanced program.
:D
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> Hey gang, in trying to assign concepts to the vote number, we said
> that 3 means you’re OK with the talk being in. Well looking at the
> current results, it looks like you’ll need a >3.5 in order to get
> accepted. So, as that turns out, a 3 is actually a vote for decline
> as it lowers the average.
>
> I’m just wondering if that’s a problem or not. Thinking back, I’ll
> want to make sure I didn’t put a 3 vote in for talks that I actually
> didn’t have a strong opinion about that may skew the vote. Not sure
> if we should all do a pass like that.
If we did that it would probably just elevate the average vote but still leave us with exactly the same problem. Personally I think that 3.5 cut-off sounds about right, given the amount of talks we can actually accept. Of
course we also have to break it down by category and there could be some cases where lower voted talks are accepted because the category is under-represented by great talks. It's definitely a tough process - I keep thinking elevating my vote on one talk will
inevitably cause another talk to fall off the bottom, and maybe that's a great talk too. I guess in the end having too many good submissions is a good kind of problem to have!
John
