Message #9176

[gandalf]

Svend:
Just based on my background, I am always interested in how people try to turn numbers into information.  It is way too easy, with computers, to print reams of paper that contain lots of numbers but don't facilitate the assimilation of those numbers into information.  And I am also usually curious about the scale.  For example, what would a ski with all 90's ski like as opposed to one with all 80's (and what would a ski that was all 50's be like).  My guess is that there are few of those, and that the numbers are really skewed to the high end just like grades in school.  The grading scheme may run from 0 to 100, but the numbers from 60-100 get used a lot more; and a scale like Peter used with numbers from 1 to 5 may convey just as much information (although Peter has very few 1's).  I very much like the graphics layout, especially if the categories are positioned on the wheel such that a bulge in one area indicates a certain type of ski.

Anyway, thanks very much for posting. 
Jim