Check your prejudices' predictive power

2007-01-27 18:20 | Posted by prechelt | Permanent Link | General

Alvar Freude, the Perl platform representative, who was present throughout the contest, found that most teams looked "typical" for what he would expect a team using that platform to look like.

To see whether this is really true (and to pass his idle time), he prepared a set of photos of each team (and even their flipchart) in the following way:

Alvar has removed telltale platform signs such as logos and slogans (even the team numbers) from the photographs
For each set of photos, you can choose via a checkbox what you think is this team's platform
When submitting such a choice you will be shown what the other visitors believed
When finished with all teams you can visit a page containing the true answers

A very nice game for all those of you who have not yet studied the team photos further down in the blog too closely (or have already forgotten what they saw).

Have a look at www.a-blast.org/plat_forms.

Thanks, Alvar!

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2007-01-30 17:37 | Posted by Alvar | http://alvar.a-blast.org/

Team 3: OK, this was my next guess, but I didn't want wo say it too loud ;-)

Ciao
Alvar

2007-01-29 11:30 | Posted by team3 | www.abaxx.de

Hi Alvar,

we like to give a hint about the contents of our flip chart. Of course we did NOT make so many mistakes ;-) The intention was to gather other statistics. Have a look at point 3 in our
summary ;-)

Regards

The abaXX Team

2007-01-27 20:51 | Posted by Alvar Freude | http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/

Thomas, you can take my pictures, no problem. I'll add a notice about CC.
But I'm sure that they are not the best photos of the world (or in other words: some are really worse); and the evaluation team made photos of each team every 15 minutes, perhaps this might be interesting.

Ciao
Alvar

2007-01-27 20:23 | Posted by Alvar Freude | http://alvar.a-blast.org/plat_forms/

BTW: I have a question to the abaXX team, about their mysterious list on your flipchart: what is this list? Are these counter for bugs per developer? ;-)

Flipchart with list of counters

2007-01-27 20:20 | Posted by Thomas Koch | http://blog.ruhrgebietswiki.de

That's wonderful. I've been right with all my votes althought if not voted on all of the teams.
I'm actually preparing an exhibition on the relations between software and culture. I'd like to use this pictures and the votes in my exhibition as a demonstration, that software is not only something technical, but also a question of taste.

For this reason I'd kindly ask, if the pictures could be released as CC and maybe some of the participants would agree to have their pictures shown in this context. Participants who don't send me an agreement would be anonymized.

Thx a lot for the idea and the page!

Thomas Koch

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