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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KDLadage" data-source="post: 993460" data-attributes="member: 88">I will answer this... but not right now. Ask me again after this is over. I would not want to create a debate over how the current votes are tallied (should my personal ideas on how the voting should be handled differ from those that designed the system).Well, off the top of my head, you have: <ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Standard average (mean, median or mode) -- this results in things like a single vote of 10 being seen as a total vote of 10.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Weighted average (mean, median or mode) -- with the number of votes a product gets getting into the mix as well.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Slanted average (mean, median or mode) -- think of this as treating the vote as if it were the vote squared... such that 10's are 4-times the weight of a 5 and so on.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Slanted/Weighted average (mean, median or mode) -- this is like combining slanted and weighted averages.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Virtual Negatives -- take any of the voting schemes above. Now, treat a vote of 6 as a +1 vote; a vote of 5 becomes a -1 vote, a vote of 1 becomes a -5 vote; a vote of 10 becomes a +5 vote.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Virtual Negatives + Weighted Average</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Virtual Negatives + Slanted Average</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Virtual Negatives + Weighted Average + Slanted Average</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> and so on and so forth...</li> </ol>And this does not even get into the many ways, using the miriad of Statistical Tools this could go...</blockquote>

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