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View Poll Results: Should the mode, mean or median be used in the 'Rate the Grand Prix' category? | |||
The mode (the present system) | 4 | 50.00% | |
The mean | 4 | 50.00% | |
The median | 0 | 0% | |
Voters: 8. You may not vote on this poll |
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17 Feb 2022, 19:18 (Ref:4099139) | #1 | ||
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Predictions Contest - mean, median or mode?
crmalcolm requested the following last year:
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Anyone is welcome to vote, but I will implement the most popular choice from those who participated in the 2021 Predictions Contest. |
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17 Feb 2022, 21:02 (Ref:4099164) | #2 | |
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I like it how it is with the mode. In Abu Dhabi I predicted a rating of 1 and was right, but that kind of thing will almost never happen with the others where it is more likely to be somewhere in the middle. So I would choose the mode as it allows freak predictions to be right more often.
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BTCC Frog has a good point. On the other hand, use of the 'mode' could make for some strange results. Imagine a race that evokes strong reactions one way or the other. Let's say the poll result is:
10: 3 9: 9 8: 6 7: 2 6: 2 5: 3 4: 3 3: 8 2: 8 1: 5 Using 'mode', the score is 9. A small variation in the voting might have made the score 2 or 3. With 'median' the score would be 4.9, rounded to 5, which would be much more representative of the voting. If using 'mode', what do you do if two scores are equal? Taking the above example, if 2 gets 9 votes instead of 8. |
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1 Mar 2022, 22:18 (Ref:4100811) | #4 | ||
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Reading the previous regulations, if I am understanding correctly, then the points would be awarded to anyone predicting either score that received 9 votes.
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I'm not sure if this will work well, but we're going to trial it for the duration of this season - we'll use the mean and the mode. For instance, Abu Dhabi got a mode of 1, but (and I just did a quick calculation and didn't exclude the predictions winners as I would as per the rules), but it also got a mean of 5.1. I would round this down to 5.
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