Little Questionnaire

[peca]

I do subtotals. It is quite interesting. It's without votes from Germany forum yet. I would like to thanks all participants. Anybody still can join.

by category            pts tot.%
----------------------+---+-----
media player           186 (22%)
game console           308 (37%)
computer companion     343 (41%)

by subcategory         pts tot.% cat.%
----------------------+---+-----+-----
personal video          85 (10%) (46%)
personal audio          76 ( 9%) (41%)
house player            25 ( 3%) (13%)

simple or logic games   50 ( 6%) (16%)
emulated systems       162 (19%) (53%)
native games            96 (11%) (31%)

internet               154 (18%) (45%)
work/job                65 ( 8%) (19%)
personal               124 (15%) (36%)

----------------------+---
total voters            93

 

[j6cubic]

I just tried to figure out what the average vote was. My completely unscientific approach was as follows:

1. Calculate how much one point is worth (100 % / 9 pts ≈ 11 %/pt).
2. Take the list of options and their associated scores. While fewer than nine points have been assigned in total:
   1. Select the option with the highest score
   2. Substract 11% from its score
   3. Assign one point to it
3. Calculate the scores for the option groups.

The result is as follows:
Note that this is not a vote!

• 2 media player
  • 1 personal video
  • 1 personal audio
  • 0 house player
• 3 game console
  • 0 simple or logic games
  • 2 emulated systems
  • 1 native games
• 4 computer companion
  • 2 internet
  • 1 work/job
  • 1 personal

 

[dflemstr]

I just tried to figure out what the average vote was.

Since you already have the data, could you create a real average?
aka, in pseudocode:

• Create one variable for each row of data {r1, r2, r3, ..., r9}
• Create an integer variable {i}
• For each post:
  • Increase i by 1
  • For each row of data:
    • Increase the r# variable by [voted number]/[total points distributed in the post]
• Take each of {r1, r2, r3, ..., r9}, divide it by i and post the result here

 

[j6cubic]

I just tried to figure out what the average vote was.

Since you already have the data, could you create a real average?

I worked under the assumption that, as per the rules, everyone distributed exactly nine points (or the number of people who did otherwise is insignificant). If that assumption is true, the exact work you described has already been done by peca. Since this is peca's questionnaire and he intends to use it for a dissertation it's reasonable to assume the data provided by his subtotal to be good.

I can add a citation of his post to mine if you want, though.

 

[dflemstr]

I just tried to figure out what the average vote was.

Since you already have the data, could you create a real average?

I worked under the assumption that, as per the rules, everyone distributed exactly nine points (or the number of people who did otherwise is insignificant). If that assumption is true, the exact work you described has already been done by peca. Since this is peca's questionnaire and he intends to use it for a dissertation it's reasonable to assume the data provided by his subtotal to be good.

I can add a citation of his post to mine if you want, though.

Oops, sorry, for some reason I thought that that post was a few pages back, and that it wasn't up to date. That's what you get for reading threads too quickly and in parallell, I guess...

 

[peca]

Update. I work out votes from Germany forum too. Percentage is as calculated by OOo Clac, so don't beat me that sum is not always 100%

by category            pts tot.%
----------------------+---+-----
media player           235 (22%)
game console           424 (39%)
computer companion     421 (39%)

by subcategory         pts tot.% cat.%
----------------------+---+-----+-----
personal video         114 (11%) (49%)
personal audio          94 ( 9%) (40%)
house player            27 ( 3%) (11%)

simple or logic games   63 ( 6%) (15%)
emulated systems       231 (21%) (54%)
native games           130 (12%) (31%)

internet               192 (18%) (45%)
work/job                83 ( 8%) (20%)
personal               146 (14%) (35%)

----------------------+---
total voters           120

EDIT: Open Document Sheet with data

 

[bzar]

Update. I work out votes from Germany forum too. Percentage is as calculated by OOo Clac, so don't beat me that sum is not always 100%

by category            pts tot.%
----------------------+---+-----
media player           235 (22%)
game console           424 (39%)
computer companion     421 (39%)

by subcategory         pts tot.% cat.%
----------------------+---+-----+-----
personal video         114 (11%) (49%)
personal audio          94 ( 9%) (40%)
house player            27 ( 3%) (11%)

simple or logic games   63 ( 6%) (15%)
emulated systems       231 (21%) (54%)
native games           130 (12%) (31%)

internet               192 (18%) (45%)
work/job                83 ( 8%) (20%)
personal               146 (14%) (35%)

----------------------+---
total voters           120

EDIT: Open Document Sheet with data

Entirely unscientific definition of an average voter:

>>> for x in (0.11, 0.09, 0.03, 0.06, 0.21, 0.12, 0.18, 0.08, 0.14):
...  print x * 9
... 
0.99
0.81
0.27
0.54
1.89
1.08
1.62
0.72
1.26

By creative "well-this-is-the-least-far-which-gets-me-a-total-of-nine-points" rounding we get:

personal video         1
personal audio         1
house player           0

simple or logic games  0
emulated systems       2
native games           1

internet               2
work/job               1
personal               1

EDIT: It seems I'm only one off from this (one point from internet to emulation). Guess I'm a pretty average user

EDIT: whoops, should be better now

 

[Grench]

• 1 media player
  • 0 personal video
  • 1 personal audio
  • 0 house player
• 2 game console
  • 0 simple or logic games
  • 0 emulated systems
  • 2 native games
• 6 computer companion
  • 3 internet
  • 2 work/job
  • 1 personal

 

[mali]

Thanks peca
Very interesting. I had guessed, that gaming would be more in front. Nice to see that we have a strong MID/UMPC fraction.

 

[Grench]

Thanks peca
Very interesting. I had guessed, that gaming would be more in front. Nice to see that we have a strong MID/UMPC fraction.

2X - good survey.

A lot of time and attention is paid to how the emulators will work - but that is only half of the story that is unfolding for this device.

Interesting to be in the first batch to watch it progress.

 

[mali]

bump

Edit:
I hope peca get's some more info, 120 votes can't be all. So step out of the dark, lurkers!

 

[gruso]

Glad you bumped, I missed these results. Interesting indeed.

 

[may88]

Plan to do petty much everything and almost voted one for every subcategory. But after a little more thought.

• media player (to play videos, audios, photos)
  • 1 personal video
  • 0 personal audio
  • 0 house player
• game console (to play games)
  • 1 simple or logic games
  • 1 emulated systems
  • 2 native games
• computer companion (little personal computer)
  • 1 internet
  • 2 work/job
  • 1 personal

Hope this reply is not too late.

 

[peca]

I still need work out few last voices but I hope that few more people like to participate. There is still time as Pandora not arrive before January the 15th and I have time to roughly complete thesis of my dissertation till begin of February.
So don't hesitate and type you thought.
Thanks You all! I hope that we see Pandora soon.

--
Sorry for bump. This is last but one. The last one will be with final results. I'd like to finish it at end of January or sooner if I see no more participation.

 

[Balzac2m]

• 2 media player
  • 1 personal video
  • 1 personal audio
  • 0 house player
• 5 game console
  • 1 simple or logic games
  • 3 emulated systems
  • 1 native games
• 2 computer companion
  • 1 internet
  • 0 work/job
  • 1 personal

 

[RoboShmup]

• 1 media player
  • 1 personal video
  • 0 personal audio
  • 0 house player
• 4 game console
  • 0 simple or logic games
  • 3 emulated systems
  • 1 native games
• 4 computer companion
  • 2 internet
  • 1 work/job
  • 1 personal