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I average a score in the range 1500-2000 (out of 2500). I imagine those who spend more time on hn will ace it.
by greenwallnorway 10mo ago
I average a score in the range 1500-2000 (out of 2500).
I imagine those who spend more time on hn will ace it.
- ivanjermakov 10mo agoI got 2000ish, but I remember seeing 3/5 headlines. Perhaps I should spend less time there...
- tptacek 10mo agoIt helps a lot just to have an intuition for what a big article is here. The slider starts at ~1500 votes, which is an insanely successful story. You can get a strong score just by guessing 400 for everything, nudging up +100 for things you remember being popular and down -100 for things that seem obscure.
- greenwallnorway 10mo agoYea - I didn't think too long on how to calculate points well. Is there a more balanced strategy? Identifying some of the truly high-scoring articles (>1000) should be rewarding, and 200 vs 400 points is a pretty big difference on hn
- tptacek 10mo agoA "replacement-level" front page story is ~200 votes, +/- 50. If you're drawing just from the front page, and not from a deliberately weighted set of successful vs. marginal posts, most stories should be below 400. (It's weird to say this but I'm not nerdy enough to have actually worked this out with data; it's just intuition from spending time here.)
- codechicago277 10mo agoCould split the stories into buckets and then randomly sample from each bucket. Most stories are small, so they’re currently overrepresented in the sampling.