Rank in the Reputation Format

["Mani, Mahalingam (Mani)" <mmani@avaya.com>]

Nat,

 

Based on today’s discussions I am thinking that Rank is intended as a projection of the already normalized (0..1) reputation score to a real-world acceptable scale for readability.

Is that an accurate statement of the intent of Rank?

 

If so - The onus is to characterize this projection to possible classes. For example.

1. fixed scale: (Rank on a scale of 1…10) a kind of percentile, if you will.
2. indefinite scale: 4^th among 8 entities sampled (scored).
3. and so on.

 

While this is interesting information – would it be optimal in including within the reputation element-file as opposed to a parallel running database that reflects the possibly dynamic state of affairs?

For example the fixed scale implies a ranking based on an “absolute” or set yardstick and the score makes one fall onto a certain scale point. OTOH, there could be ‘curving’ as well (as in case of school-course scoring) that is indicative of the influence of number of samples to the score. But that, I would have thought, is actually a function of reputation scoring itself and not on ranking.

 

Can you clarify?

 

Regards,

-mani

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Mahalingam Mani

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