An unbiased estimator of poster quality

[Dbldown11]

how is the number 1 not a positive integer? and how does it's infinite limit not approach 1????????

please explain so I can go back and yell at all my teachers for lying to me over the years.

THE NUMBER 1 IS 1.........WHAT THE **** ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[mathdotcom]

Just as it seems to me you're confusing bigotry, hatred and ignorance with 'culture.' God bless.

Congrats, you just described the American culture.

[Dbldown11]

no prob Dd11

I really liked your Obama posts... good stuff

haha yeah I tried getting that thread going again this morning...no takers though

[mathdotcom]

how is the number 1 not a positive integer? and how does it's infinite limit not approach 1????????

please explain so I can go back and yell at all my teachers for lying to me over the years.

THE NUMBER 1 IS 1.........WHAT THE **** ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Alright, just because I feel sorry for you. Suppose I think your income depends upon only two things: how much education you have and how old you are. Then I can claim [assuming a linear relationship] that your:

Income = a*(Education) + b*(Age)

Well, how big is 'a' and how big is 'b'? Who knows. In my previous post I just suggested 'a' is equal to 1, which of course means a*(Education) = (Education).

[Dbldown11]

ok perfect....that's what I was assuming you meant.

So A won't always be 1, but when it is the number multiplied by a will remain the same...correct?

I thought you were making a blanket statement that X*1 does not equal X

But what you were saying is X*a does not equal X when a is not 1

[mathdotcom]

Relevant variables:
-Number of posts
-Quality of posts

My proxy for quality of posts = [(Avg number of thread views by posters other than thread starter) + (Avg number of replies to posts by poster of interest) + 5*(Avg number of "" per thread started by poster of interest] = X

Poster Quality = aX + b(Number of Posts)

I suggest a = 1 and b = 0.34

Calculations have been done so far for the following posters:

jjgold (531,293)
SSLP (3.4)