Comments on: The Name Dropper

By: Länksprutning – 10 August 2010 – Månhus

Länksprutning – 10 August 2010 – Månhus — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:20:30 +0000

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By: zazi

zazi — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:58:32 +0000

Hi,

what about using this game for spelling correction? That means including wrong and right spellings of music artists and score these ones.
Furthermore, I don’t really think that the classic composer are that difficult (people often know these names from the music class in school). My problem was artists from music genres I’m not familar with. That means, it was in general to difficult for me.

Cheers,

zazi

By: Logan

Logan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:56:34 +0000

“…we have a Q/A process where a person knowledgeable in music ranks our familiarity score by scanning through a list of artists ordered in descending familiarity until they start finding artists that they don’t recognize. The further they get into the list, the better the list is.”

Sounds a lot like a ROC score, but not quite as accurate. Instead of just stopping the first time they see an artist they don’t know, wouldn’t it better (and not that much more time consuming) to have them keep going while marking the ones they don’t know. Once they go say 10 or 20 unknown artists in a row they can stop with the assumption that the rest are unknown, and you can calculate a fairly accurate ROC score.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:28:18 +0000

Dan – yes – there’s a penalty if you take too long to answer. That’s to prevent people from relying on Wikipedia to boost their scores.

By: Dan Geiser

Dan Geiser — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:20:00 +0000

I was playing this in between activities at work and I noticed when I answered one question right my score went down. It did take me a particularly long time to answer. Is the score you get for a correct answer based on some sort of time factor as well?

By: alsotop

alsotop — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:53:48 +0000

I think it was obvious your name generator never creates 1 word artist names, which meant ruling out some possible options when I got to the point where I had to guess…