Quote Originally Posted by KristofferBodvin View Post
BTW: People are reading this thread.
I think the whole concept is very interesting, but I can't really imagine how it would look like in the end.I guess there are a lot of people like me: Just getting the hang of honing, but so far away in experience from you guys that they/I much rather read what you post, than actually contribute with the little knowledge gained.
Quote Originally Posted by crazycliff200843 View Post
I don't have many hones, and I doubt my experience would do anybody much good, so I don't have much input for you. Are you going to include data about what kind of steel works best with the different hones?
I'm afraid I have to disagree with both of you. The more people contribute, the more statistically correct the results will become. Clearly, if you have honed more than a couple of razors, you ought to have some idea how your hones relate to each other. No one can share hard figures, not even guys with vast experience, because there exists no real unity (ike e.g. inches or pounds) that we all know and use on a daily bases. Everybody's entries will be relative instead of absolute.
But when we have enough entries, we can statistically convolute the data of identical hones, rated by different people, and find out the median rating for each hone and calculate the deviation. It's more difficult to explain, when you don't know the correct English terms, than to do actually.

The main principle was brought up before, here on SRP. If you have a sack of beans and ask one person how much it weights, you know nothing about his answer. But when you ask 20 people, dismiss the extremes and calculate the median from the remaining results, the accuracy of the result can be amazing.

It takes 15 minutes tops, to think about your hones and fill the Excel file with your best educated guesses. Maybe for the guys of the HAD department a bit longer.

Next week I can try putting a form together in PDF format, that has easy pull down menus to enter the estimates. But it won't have the graphical feedback from the excel file.

The main question remains: does it makes sense to put this show together? If so, let us first think this thing trough with those that are willing to cooperate behind the scenes, and next actively start annoying certain SRP-members with pm-ing them questionaires.

Bart.