Patronising.
Clever, but slightly underhand of you to quote my comment, but snip
your comment to which it was a response. Your assertion, if you
remember, was that people could not do simple division sums for
themselves. Is this selective snipping a roundabout way of retracting
your original assertion?
Yup. Thanks.
The greatest brick wall I just can wrap my head around for smashing
into is this:
You actually want the average Intentionally NOT calculated.
Yes. Because it's a processing of the information. It says to the reader
(let's presume a new, and less sophisticated player) "this is the column
that matters")
When did I say that I don't care for the rest of the numbers?
When did I argue to exclude them?
I love numbers! The more the merrier!
OK.
Why are you restricting a
simple calculated number that I, and I am just guessing a little
here, Most people, would find useful?
Because it's a derived number, not a piece of raw data. A decision has
been taken, that those two columns are important enough to be
processed into a third column. That decision, and the value of that
column is debatable.
Meaningful?
Yes, your meaning, imposed on others.
Why are you
trying to keep me from those numbers?
Well you can stick them somewhere else (not intended to be a quip!) I
suppose. I just don't like the idea of mixing primary and secondary data
in the same table. Graphs and tables can be used to give messages, by
the way they present and process data, ranging from straight and factual
to distorted propaganda. I'd like ours to have as much integrity as
possible.
What have I done to you?
Nothing personal you know.
Someone has gone through all the trouble to come up with the idea,
put in their own unpaid time, pay for a web site, etc a-n,
Woah! Just because Kevin took an initiative and stuck up a sample on
his web page, it doesn't mean we have to accept his format you know -
give him his due, it was just a quick sample.
and just
as I'm gettin all excited because there's gonna be More numbers,
you come down and say "No No, mustn't include THAT number. Let them
figure it for themselves..I (EYE) don't think it's important".
To be precise: I think an average votes column gives out false
messages.
Please please don't take numbers away from me....
OK. What about doing the roster in excel file format, which could be
downloaded by number crunchers such as your good self? It could
display the raw data, but you could take your own copy, and play with
extra columns to your heart's content.
Regards,
Laurence G. Tilley http://www.lgtilley.freeserve.co.uk/
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BBrunet <ditletang@canada.com> wrote
On Wed, 11 July 2001, "Laurence G. Tilley" wrote:
