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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: Drawing the line (no SG or ER content)
Date: Monday, December 10, 2018
Time: 12:50:55 PM
Remote Address: 97.107.69.29
Message ID: 318981
Parent ID: 318978
Thread ID: 318957
Okay, I now understand what you're getting at, since this time you made it a lot clearer (thanks for that). But the bottom line remains the same - in that 1) This is just a rating scale and nothing to make a big deal about (really), and 2) Again, you still got to show where the line breaks somewhere - even if the rating scale isn't a big deal, you still need that line for it.
But since I still don't see how you don't get this, in math and for rating scales (and no, this isn't something that I just made up myself), when you have a rating (or a reading) of 9.14, it gets rounded off often to a 9.1 rating. When you also have another rating of 9.05 - it also often - more times than not, gets rounded off to a 9.1, too. But... if those 2 ratings were a 9.15, that would be rounded off to a 9.2 rating, while a rating of 9.04 would get dropped off to only a 9.0. But that wasn't the case at all here, both ratings - if I rounded them off - are then the same ratings for the mathematical reasons that I just noted. In this case, a ".05" reading always goes higher up on a chart and not down. I deal with his often enough being a official weather record-keeper for the U.S. National Weather Service (called the NWS for short), as this U.S. office is very technical on stuff like this when it comes to officially recording anything for them, especially temperature readings (so you can blame them [and math in general]for all of this). If the temperature outside is 32.5 degrees F - then no, it isn't freezing outside and the reading is rounded off to 33 degrees. But if the reading was 32.4 degrees, it is then rounded off to 32 degrees and that reading is freezing. So you have a mere 0.1 degree F to determine if it's freezing outside or not!... just like a mere 0.1 is the line drawn up by me for my scale on if an album or song gets a passing grade or not - since again, in life and in math - there's always a line like that drawn (I sure as shit didn't start this, its been a way of doing this for years!). So there's nothing wrong or in error with how my chart is made up. It's my chart, yes, and it makes sense at least to me - and it should also make sense to anybody else who has ever made up a drawing line before me.... Be it the Mandozer line in baseball, the freezing line in weather (and yes, even the Centigrade/Celsius temperature scale that you use in Europe has that line, too), a passing grade in schools, or the line that I draw for my rating scale - they all, every single one of them, work in the very same way. So if it's good enough for baseball, the NWS, most schools, etc, it's good enough for my scale to have one too. No? (or is everybody who goes by this wrong?).
Btw, I'm pretty sure schools in the U.K. still give grades when marking.
Its strange, but many of the liberal schools in America are doing away totally with grades. We got 2 totally different schools in the town and in the county where we live. They both have to cover about 3,000 square miles each (going by the usual scale of 20 miles square [20 × 20 miles] having an area equal to 400 square miles) because of the layout of the land around here and the small number of people living here - even if there's still a mini baby boom going on here too, with those few people having a bunch of babies. But while our entire county is on the liberal side (and bigger in land mass than the U.S. states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined - yet with only about 6,100 people living here in the county, which nobody knows how to pronounce its name), it only has 2 schools (and both schools include grades kindergarten thru 12, that's very unusual for any U.S. school, but normal for rural Colorado schools). But anyway, at the traditional public school, they do grade the kids (from A to F), while at the Crestone Charter School - which is unlike most U.S. schools and is about as liberal as any school in the entire U.S., there they have no grades at all and they don't even give kids any scores on their tests (if they have tests). They either do well on their test or they take the test over again. But the kids there are never given any grades at all. That charter school is know locally as the "Crestone-Hogwarts Hippy Academy" because it really is a far-out school, unlike any other school anywhere in the U.S..
I can't remember if you said the album review page was staying or not when Gasland closes. If it is continuing I think you could consider giving definitions to your ratings.
Of course it's staying, as my 3 different album review pages have nothing at all to do with this Stones message board, and only the Stones board is closing down. Nothing else on the domain will be affected at all by its closure. I do have 9 other websites on the domain - and only 4 of them are music related. This board is of course an offshoot of the Stones site, and while the board only will close down, what will emerge from it will be a new weekly poll bulletin board, that won't be a part of the Stones site, but will become a offshoot of 3 of the 4 music sites on the domain.
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