I understand that Lazeez has "normalized" the scores on stories. I have a question as to what date this occurred on and does the "normalized scoring" effect earlier stories? So to summarize what I am after is there a date where stories before this have an actual "score average" and everything after this date is "normalized"?
Thanks for any help.
Sean
I don't remember the exact dates involved, but one of the old SOL blogs had them. Over the years the scoring methodology and system changed for various systems (remember the old TPA system) and each scoring period was normalised by itself for the scores in that period. For some of the older stories all the raw scores aren't available for each period and only the normalised average and number of votes was carried over into the calculations for the current score for some of the earliest periods.
The point to remember is that what's being referred to in the relative order of the stories is not the order of all the stories but the order of of all the stories in that period and only that period. At one point in the past a major exercise was done by a few people and the results posted in the old forum. In each case the relative relationships between the stories for a period were found to be the same be they done on the raw scores or the normalised scores.
