Mythical Six Week Build Season

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Originally Posted by IKE

.. We then asked teams to assign an estimated "percentage" that the practice was similar to the competition robot. This varied from 10% (usually a modified version of the previous year and only used for driving practice) to 100% (only 1 team claimed that). The average came in around 60% (averaging a number given to a subjective value is.... well another number...) with the usual Einstein suspects coming in between 90-99% IE very very similar. This was a fun discussion to have, and a couple teams were oddly specific..

Curious - I would have considered "Woody," our prototype robot in 2014 to be around 60% similar to "Buzz" even though they were built of different materials, because Buzz was built in aluminum to the dimensions worked out in lumber on Woody, and all of the functional points were implemented similarly. Our 2015 practice robot was north of 95%, only decorative and completely inconsequential differences like abandoned mounting holes. Anyway, was 60% the mean value? What were the median (50th percentile) and mode (commonest answers)? I suspect that this did not look at all like a normal distribution, even among teams with similar OPRs. It would be lovely if you could post a histogram.