On Monday, January 30, 2017 09:08:51 PM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> > Also, for future discussions, please explicitly mention it when you're
> > using the results from your custom evaluation algorithm,
> 
> I said something along the lines of "with any evaluation method". The
> email I wrote about the different methods stated, that the way I used to
> aggregate the results was to find a set of results which are top ranked
> regardless of the method.

Oh sorry, it seems I missed the brackets where you said that!  :(

> > It's just that the procedure of a "democratic" vote should be clearly
> > predefined and not implicitly changed when stating results.
> 
> It wasn’t clearly predefined and what was written was easy to
> game. That’s why I implemented several evaluations to find a stable set
> of top-ranked elements which does not depend on the evaluation method
> and is more resilient against gaming.
> 
> Finally: I am somewhat cranky, because I have the impression that you’re
> missing the point why I did the different evaluations. But I won’t push
> that further. No need to stay cranky, there are more important things to
> do. Like deciding on the offers.

Fair enough :)

Please don't feel offended, I didn't mean to criticize the fact that you did 
alternate evaluations, that's a good idea, I just want it to be clear which 
method was used when results are being discussed.
I don't want to dispute scientific sanity of your methods by any means!

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