[open-economics] Fwd: http://www.yourtopia.net/quiz/2

Fri Jan 14 02:46:28 UTC 2011

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From: Tim Hubbard
Date: 12 January 2011 22:37
Subject: http://www.yourtopia.net/quiz/2
To: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>

Hi Rufus,

Happy New Year!

Just taking a quick look at http://www.yourtopia.net/.  Impressive for
a weekends work.

I had a go at doing the quiz, but the problem I came up again was that
the consequence of the weightings can be ambiguous.

For example, on section 2

 Long-term unemployment (% of total unemployment)

I assume increasing the weight results in greater value being given to
lower unemployment, but it doesn't say that that is the direction
intended.

Similarly,

 Household final consumption expenditure PPP (constant 2005 international $)

Greens for example, might want to value low values of consumption,
whereas I assume you mean high values here are given more weight?

I guess I should look at the code to see how the functions work!

Best wishes,

Tim