On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Ville Bergholm <ville.bergholm(a)iki.fi>wrote;wrote:
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Ivan
Kassal<kassal(a)fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
Dear group,
In a stroke of genius, Alejandro pointed out to me that instead of
tabulating the coffee scores, I can get you to tabulate the coffee
scores,
thus reducing my workload by 100%. So,
there's now a piece of paper by
the
coffee machine where you can register your
ratings. We're still on sample
A.
Seeing other people's answers will affect the validity of the results
since there may be a social pressure to conform to the opinion of the
majority.
In other words, the only reliable method is to use a locked ballot
box. If no sample gets a clear majority of high ratings the ballots
are to be mixed with wet straw and burned in the kitchen microwave.
The black smoke that issues from the oven will then notify the
participants that the experiment needs to be repeated.
Ville
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