Re: [gentoo-project] You have been researched (again)

[Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org>]

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On 06/19/2013 03:02 AM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote:
> On 2013-06-19 00:01, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>  David Garcia, Marcelo Serrano Zanetti and Frank Schweitzer
>> Chair of Systems Design – www.sg.ethz.ch – ETH Zurich
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3612
>>
>>
>> Merry reading,
>>      jer
>>
> 
> So, there ya go. Start taking happy pills and be more positive and motivating!
> 

I've not read their new paper but the first one was just ridiculous.
They drew an edge from A to B if A reassigned a bug to B and intepreted
this as "A knows that B is an expert on the subject".  That is just
ridiculous since A is usually a bug wrangler and B is to be found in
metadata.  For instance the emacs team which gets very few bugs almost
never appears as B (and certainly not A).  This introduces all sorts of
bias.  I think it would be fair to say that their first study had very
low predictive power and the effects they saw were created by their method.

Cheers,
Thomas

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Thomas Kahle


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