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ok, but you can still weight them without using more questions... let's say we reduced it to 2 questions for arguments sake, call the questions q1 and q2, and c
by tjpick 16y ago
ok, but you can still weight them without using more questions... let's say we reduced it to 2 questions for arguments sake, call the questions q1 and q2, and call whatever the answer to that question is, a1 and a2.
you currently do this:
q1: answer from 1-5
q2: answer from 1-15
so the max is 20, q2 is 3 times more important than q1, total = a1 + a2.
what I'd do is this:
q1: answer from 1-4
q2: answer from 1-4
total = a1 + 3*a2
total is still out of 20, but now all the questions are answered on the same easier scale, and you let the formula do the weighting for you
- arnorhs 16y agoYou're right. But maybe the computation becomes more complicated and less transparent for the average user. Another benefit of choosing varying points instead of always the same 1-5 scale is that someone select points from 1-7 or 1-20 also makes it really clear which options weigh more and that can be a statement by itself that maybe, those things that you value and make you want to rewrite (sometimes the reason is just that you don't want to learn the existing code) maybe isn't such an important factor.