Re: Suggesting a Poll

On Feb 17, 2:18 am, Bill Dubuque <w...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I doubt Google Groups star ratings are useful since many experts read
sci.math not through Google Groups but rather with real newsreaders.
But someone with some spare time might investigate how Google Groups
star ratings compare to the CRAP scores tabulated below.

Last year [1] I gathered some crude statistics that may be useful
in this regard. I noticed that there is a fairly strong inverse
correlation between the mathematical quality of one's sci.math
posts and the percentage of one's posts that are "crank bashing".
Below are the statistics, gathered crudely by simply computing the
percentage of posts in the Google Groups sci.math archive that
involve telltale crank-bashing keywords (crank, loon, crackpot...).
This CRAP (CRAnk-bashing Percentage) score is tabulated below.
A '*' denotes a known/suspected professional mathematician/PhD.
Notice almost all the professionals/PhDs have less than 0.4% CRAP,
whereas the high-CRAP offenders exceed such by an order of magnitude.
If nothing else, this might prove useful for constructing killfiles,
"scoring" posts in various newsreaders (e.g. Gnus), etc.

[1]http://google.com/groups?selm=y8zwsjtbxmf.fsf%40nestle.csail.mit.edu

6.5%  72/1100   Tonico, tonio, Tonicopm (Jose Antonio Perez)
4.4   98/2204   tommy1729, amy666
4.1  202/4910   uncle al
3.8   54/1420   galathaea
3.7   67/1790   Larry Hammick
3.2  214/6670  *Chris Hillman
3.0  126/4240   MoeBlee
2.9  178/6220  *Proginoskes (Christopher Heckman)
2.9  110/3790   Denis Feldmann
2.7   35/1300   Angus Rodgers
2.7  278/10300  Lester Zick
2.1   42/1960   Will Twentyman
2.1   41/1890   Aatu Koskensilta
2.0   99/4910   Mensanator
1.8   85/4710   Ross A. Finlayson
1.5  104/6920   Archimedes Plutonium, Ludwig Plutonium
1.5   13/866    Tim Smith
1.5   15/986   *Chan-Ho Suh
1.4   48/3390   Phil Carmody
1.4   12/877   *Edgar E. Escultura
1.3   46/3630   The Ghost In The Machine
1.2   19/1530   Michael Press
1.2   65/5280  *Pertti Lounesto
0.8   14/2600  *Robert Silverman, Bob Silverman, Pubkeybreaker
0.8  250/29500  Virgil
0.8   59/7790   *** T. Winter
0.8   24/3050  *Daryl McCullough
0.8   74/9580   Bill Taylor
0.8   22/2870  *Torkel Franzen
0.7    6/822   *Alexander Abian
0.7   23/3070   Dann Corbit
0.6   18/2880  *Dave L. Renfro
0.6   37/5880   quasi
0.6   12/2093   John Ramsden,  Owlhoot
0.6   43/7160  *Robin Chapman
0.6  171/29500 *David C. Ullrich
0.5   31/6690  *John Baez
0.5   29/5980  *Gerry Myerson
0.5   16/3030  *Doug Norris
0.4    1/283   *hagen <k...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
0.4    8/2010  *Keith Ramsay
0.4   11/2590  *Matthew P Wiener
0.3   51/16400 *Arturo Magidin
0.3    5/1570  *Derek Holt <ma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
0.3    7/2280  *Ilias Kastanas
0.3   26/9710  *Peter Nyikos
0.3    3/944   *David Eppstein
0.3    3/1080  *Tal Kubo
0.2    4/1760  *David Bernier
0.2    4/1890  *Bill Dubuque
0.2    9/4160   The World Wide Wade
0.2    9/3690  *Dave Rusin
0.2   11/7050   Dave Seaman
0.2    7/3450  *Lee Rudolph
0.2    6/3310  *Ronald Bruck
0.2    4/2120  *Timothy Murphy
0.2    2/1160  *Ed Hook
0.2    4/1900  *Toby Bartels
0.2    2/1230  *Timothy Y. Chow
0.2    3/1490  *Paul Sperry
0.1    3/5920  *G. A. Edgar
0.1    1/1097  *Mariano Suarez-Alvar
0.1    1/952   *Michael Barr
0.1    5/4800  *Zdislav V. Kovarik
0.1    1/1160  *John Conway
0.1   12/1880  *James Dolan
0.1    1/1210  *Noam Elkies
0.0    0/1180  *Axel Vogt
0.0    0/4860   David Cantrell
0.0    0/1230  *Jannick Asmus
0.0    0/2150  *Peter L. Montgomery
0.0    1/2210  *[Mr.] Lynn Kurtz
0.0    5/13500 *Herman Rubin
0.0    0/1900   Rob Johnson
0.0    1/3070  *William C Waterhouse
0.0    0/2210  *Greg Kuperberg
0.0    0/1090  *Miguel A. Lerma
0.0    0/2190  *D. J. Bernstein
0.0    0/1220  *Edwin Clark  

<blows raspberry>

:-)

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Canaan Banana


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