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Old 12-17-2003, 05:25 AM
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I posted a pic on this website where people can rate your fishtank (in my case, a reef tank).

http://www.ratemyfishtank.com/toplist.php?ut=1

As an experiment, I set my location to Canada for the first week and I averaged 6.2. Then, I changed my location to USA and now my total average is 7.27 meaning that after I changed my location, the new votes were around 8.2 making my overall average 7.27. So, by simply having a Canadian location, I was getting 20% lower marks. I realize that the sample size is too small to make any conclusions but it was just an experiment that I thought was interesting. Feel free to post your pics for fun.
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Old 12-17-2003, 05:45 AM
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We can test this. How many votes did you get when you were "Canadian" and how many now that you're "American"? I have the significance charts in a textbook.
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Old 12-17-2003, 05:50 AM
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Its was about half/half. 9 and 9, I believe.

My very first vote was a 10 (from webmaster I'm guessing) so the next 8 votes dropped me to 6.2 average (after 9 votes).

Then after changing to US, the next 9 raised me to 7.277 average.
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Old 12-17-2003, 06:00 AM
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Nevermind, I just remembered you can't calculate significance without having all the scores. Oh well, as you said, sample is far too small to take as meaningful.
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