On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Ville Bergholm
<ville.bergholm@iki.fi> wrote:
> 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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