[Babase] Questions re. maturity in ranker

Jun Yang junyang at gmail.com
Thu Sep 28 21:45:18 EDT 2006


On 9/28/06, Susan Alberts <alberts at duke.edu> wrote:

> Currently we rank all females, whether adult or not, in a linear
> fashion according to the conflicts they win and lose. Often, when
> females are maturing, they rank among adult females even when they
> are still juvenile. We want to be able to generate adult female ranks
> by extracting all females that are past maturity and retaining the
> same relative ranking among them once the juvs are removed, but
> renumbering the ranks so that there are no gaps in the numbering.

That makes sense. A more general question along the same line:
There are currently 6 types of rankings:

ADF	Adult Females
ALL	All group members
ADM	Adult Males
ALF	All Females
ALM	All Males
FYM	All females and males < 7

Besides enforcing the consistency between ADF and ALF
as you described above, should we also enforce the consistency,
say, between ADM and ALM, and, in general,
ALL with everything else?

Would it suffice to let ranker users to produce an ALL ranking,
from which all other rankings are automatically derived (by
extracting relevant entries and retaining the same relative ranking
but renumbering to eliminate gaps)?

--- Jun Y.


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