Hi Ward,
One of the best analogies that I can come up with for the PED competition
is the 10 year old kid my neighborhood who can easily beat any grown-up in
a car racing video game.
Based on your comments below, would you suggest that this 10-year old and
his video game fall in to the "necessary but not sufficient" category for
determining automobile racing skill?
Certainly the pileup tapes have a higher degree of correlation than my
example, but I think it demonstrates my point.
If you want to see who can race a car the fastest, you put them in a car
and race. You don't put them in front of a video game.
73
Bill, W4AN
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Ward Silver wrote:
> > If you were rating a contester (like we are doing for the WRTC selection
> > process), would the dayton pile up competition or results from a PED-type
> > competition figure in your opinion?
>
> I wouldn't really put too much weight on the synthesized results as an
> indicator of overall abilities except to the extent that they will be part
> of the competition.
>
> Bear in mind that the good ops (K3ZO, W6YA, W9WI and others) do tend to
> cluster up at the top end of the pileup tapes. I'm not sure what the
> correlation is between average pileup score and average contest score
> (sounds like an interesting project, though). The ability to extract
> callsigns from a pileup is a useful ability.
>
> I think pileup competition ability falls into the "necessary but not
> sufficient" category of skill. Being a good hurdler does not necessarily
> mean that one will do well in a decathlon, but it helps. Contesting is a
> multi-skill sport and to do well means one must be strong in several
> aspects of it.
>
> 73, Ward N0AX
>
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