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New bags may get discouraged...
Posted by Daniel, Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M Gunn Senior High School and NASA Ames.

Posted on 5/6/99 10:50 PM MST


In Reply to: weighing bags of gold with an odd scale... posted by Joe Johnson on 5/6/99 8:52 PM MST:



I completely agree that more trials are needed. I'm sure you've seen my messages stating just that. But if the trials you use are fake, it just becomes another 'tilt of the scale' (to use your analogy).

Although I do believe it's true that the proposed system may make the upper teams more accurately ranked, I fear it could discourage new teams that don't go to regionals.

The new guys are exactly the wrong people to discourage.

This is about inspiration, remember? We can't have people dropping out because of an inherent unfairness in the system. In fact, if I'm thinking about this correctly, it would be worse than 'tilting the scale'. It would be more like placing it on a slanted table. The unfairness that you were referring to was due to ill luck. The proposed unfairness is actually designed into the system. Something just doesn't feel right about that. I can't force myself to believe that a good system can TRY to be unfair. Unfortunately I think the proposed system does just that.

Although the current system is flawed, it isn’t trying to be unfair.

Perhaps I'm completely off my rocker here. Perhaps rookie teams often make it to regionals. I really don't know. Do any of you know what the general trend is for rookie teams?


Thoughts?
-Daniel
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