Response to Zen (Response #61)

Uploaded 2201 Days Ago by Ana - 6 comments

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setaou said 2200 days ago:

Very good composition idea

bioLarzen said 2200 days ago:

It's a shame you all rush so much - especially with this theme... 12 commetns and only 1 comment...
I wouldn't rerally understand that even if it was a lousy shot - but it's a superb one! I just low the way the tree and its image make up a near perfect square. Reality and reflection making a whole - that sounds like oriental for me, for sure...

On the other side, technically it's OK, i presume it's a point&shoot.

Ma ratings: 5, 5, 5, 4 (could be a tad sharper), 5.

Congrats - and hopes for more comments...

bioLarzen said 2200 days ago:

Ana, what are your ratings?

Ana said 2200 days ago:

* Relevance: 3.15
* Impact: 3.23
* Composition: 3.46
* Technique: 2.92
* Quality: 3.00
* Overall: 3.152

bioLarzen said 2200 days ago:

???

Now it's absolutely clear I'm misreading the theme concept... This one is only slightly more than half relevant???

Plus: it's only a bit better than halfway thru mediocre compo???

Folks, you must be kidding.

I guess I'm finished.

King said 2194 days ago:

bioLarzen,

You are misinterpreting the statistics (and you are not alone). Ana's rating averages in no way indicate that people think this images is "...only slightly more than half relevant." It's just the nature of aggregated data from divergent opinions--it is not appropriate to interpret the average as carrying the descriptive meaning of the category closest to the aggregated score.

With 13 Relevance ratings, 7 fives and 6 ones averages to 3.15. In a case such as this, 3.15 doesn't mean that the image is of average Relevance, but that there is great polarization in the ratings.

However, we never know the distribution of the ratings, so the average ratings are not so meaningful in interpreting the opinions of the individual raters.

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