> Allan Benson wrote:
>
> Over many years of subscribing to birding-aus, I've noticed the following
> relationship
>
> R = 1/F
>
> Where R = Relevance
> F = Frequency of contribution......
Which means that those who say nothing (F=0) are the most -
actually infinitely - relevant !! :-)
[cf. cricketers who score runs in a Test series but have
never been out: before long young Gilchrist's performance
will show that those should be listed at the top of the
averages, not at the bottom with a "-".]
For the last complete month (February 2002) those with 10 or
more contributions (according to the archive) were:
John Gamblin 34
Tony Russell 25
Terry Pacey 24
Laurie&Leanne Knight 23
david camilleri 14
Bob Forsyth 13
Hugo Phillipps 13
David.Geering 12
Stuart Cooney 11
Andrew Taylor 10
Steve.Clark 10
jilldening 10
There were several with the highest relevance score using
the formula (amongst those who did post messages). Allan
will be glad to know he was amongst them.
I don't propose to follow Allan's line of nominating
favourites (although I have reasons for being thankful to
all the above) but I wonder about his criteria. I guess I
would give greater weight to the fact that current human
generations are almost certainly the last to be able to
prevent many species going extinct.
Michael Norris
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