Natural Coordination System (NCS) and Existing Theories in Physics and Cosmology by Ioannis Hadjidakis

Sergey Fedosin

If you do not understand why your rating dropped down. As I found ratings in the contest are calculated in the next way. Suppose your rating is [math]R_1 [/math] and [math]N_1 [/math] was the quantity of people which gave you ratings. Then you have [math]S_1=R_1 N_1 [/math] of points. After it anyone give you [math]dS [/math] of points so you have [math]S_2=S_1+ dS [/math] of points and [math]N_2=N_1+1 [/math] is the common quantity of the people which gave you ratings. At the same time you will have [math]S_2=R_2 N_2 [/math] of points. From here, if you want to be R2 > R1 there must be: [math]S_2/ N_2>S_1/ N_1 [/math] or [math] (S_1+ dS) / (N_1+1) >S_1/ N_1 [/math] or [math] dS >S_1/ N_1 =R_1[/math] In other words if you want to increase rating of anyone you must give him more points [math]dS [/math] then the participant`s rating [math]R_1 [/math] was at the moment you rated him. From here it is seen that in the contest are special rules for ratings. And from here there are misunderstanding of some participants what is happened with their ratings. Moreover since community ratings are hided some participants do not sure how increase ratings of others and gives them maximum 10 points. But in the case the scale from 1 to 10 of points do not work, and some essays are overestimated and some essays are drop down. In my opinion it is a bad problem with this Contest rating process. I hope the FQXI community will change the rating process.

Sergey Fedosin

ioannis hadjidakis

Dear Sergey,

You are right that rating procedure is at least tricky. Because it is only partly hided (present score not known) many participants try to get a better position by low rating (1) the essays with a higher score than theirs. This is a common phenomenon and it is getting worse during the last days and specially for the essays close to the first 35 (in order to get into the heaven...). A simple solution would be to hide community rating completely, until the end of rating period, so that most of various rating strategies will be useless.

After all the benefit that any author can get participating to this contest is not the rating results but the discussions on the different views the essays offer and the opportunity to publish your thoughts without the filtration of a peering council (for authorization according to the established views).

Best wishes to everybody, Ioannis

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