Ohhh, that’s a very good point 🤔I guess that makes the comparison a bit less direct. I’ll think about whether it can be fixed or if I’ll rewrite that part. Thank you for pointing it out!
In psychology, these sorts of scales are often standardized relative to the standard deviation instead of the mean. Or you could pick some other range as a metric; for instance if I’m looking it up right (and I very well may not be), the human range of ability appears to span around 1000 Elo points. So the drop is about 2x that between beginner and master humans.
Does Elo have a meaningful zero? I thought it was an interval scale.
Ohhh, that’s a very good point 🤔I guess that makes the comparison a bit less direct. I’ll think about whether it can be fixed or if I’ll rewrite that part. Thank you for pointing it out!
In psychology, these sorts of scales are often standardized relative to the standard deviation instead of the mean. Or you could pick some other range as a metric; for instance if I’m looking it up right (and I very well may not be), the human range of ability appears to span around 1000 Elo points. So the drop is about 2x that between beginner and master humans.
Wait derp, that’s the range for chess, but go appears to more have a range of around 3000 Elo points.