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by term100
Sun Apr 27, 2014 1:24 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Restore old system of assessing problem difficulty
Replies: 5
Views: 49841

Re: Restore old system of assessing problem difficulty

If the problem ratings were supposed to converge to something more sensible over time, it clearly hasn't happened. This should be obvious to anyone just by going through the problems. You should either come up with a better system or go back to the simple yet effective solve ratios.
by term100
Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:01 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Restore old system of assessing problem difficulty
Replies: 5
Views: 49841

Re: Restore old system of assessing problem difficulty

I do still display the old rating if you click on the new one. That's actually how I know in the first place that the old style of assessing problem difficulty (still) gives much more reasonable ratings, but the point of course is that the "autolevel" feature doesn't make use of those val...
by term100
Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:33 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Restore old system of assessing problem difficulty
Replies: 5
Views: 49841

Restore old system of assessing problem difficulty

The main difficulty ratings that are currently given to problems are clearly out of whack. The old system of simply basing it on the solve ratio leads to much more sensible ratings; at worst, there is a bit of inflation when it comes to the very early problems, but that's pretty much it.