From: s...@jreiss.host4u.com (Joe Reiss)
Subject: [VOY] S.O.S. #1 - Mortal Coil
Date: 1997/12/19
Message-ID: <67cq2d$oqn$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
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Followup-To: rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.tv.star-trek.voyager
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.reviews,rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.tv.star-trek.voyager


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Greetings, all!
    Well, those of you who frequent the SOS web site already know
this, but...  The SOS has moved.  The URL of the home page has changed
("http://jreiss.host4u.com/sos/").  The email address has changed
("s...@jreiss.host4u.com").  The service has not changed.  Barring any
major catastrophes, I'll be sending out these weekly updates for a
good long time to come.  So just update your links and mail aliases,
and we'll all continue along our merry way :-)
                                                            - Joe
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 ,---_______/_______/_______/ -------------------------------------------.
(   _/_/    _/ /  _/_/_/      MORTAL COIL                                 )
 `=_______/_/ /  _/_______/ ============================================='
      _/_/_/_/  _/    _/_/    Count  Low     High     Median  StdDev  Avg
 _______/_______/_______/      (37)  0.0 x1  10.0 x12   8.5    2.2    8.1


BY AIRDATE                          BY RATING
----------------------------------  ----------------------------------
 Scorpion (II)                8.7    Scorpion (II)                8.7 
 The Gift                     7.6    Year of Hell (I)             8.4 
 Day of Honor                 7.5   [Mortal Coil                  8.1]
 Nemesis                      7.1    Year of Hell (II)            7.6 
 Revulsion                    7.4    The Gift                     7.6 
 The Raven                    7.5    The Raven                    7.5 
 Scientific Method            7.2    Day of Honor                 7.5 
 Year of Hell (I)             8.4    Revulsion                    7.4 
 Year of Hell (II)            7.6    Scientific Method            7.2 
 Random Thoughts              6.5    Nemesis                      7.1 
 Concerning Flight            6.5    Concerning Flight            6.5 
[Mortal Coil                  8.1]   Random Thoughts              6.5 
==================================  ==================================
 Average                      7.5    Average                      7.5
 Standard Deviation           0.7    Standard Deviation           0.7
 Median                       7.5    Median                       7.5
----------------------------------  ----------------------------------

The EPISODE BREAKDOWN follows.  If you aren't interested, you can move
along to the next article now.



Mortal Coil                                        (37 ratings)
---------------------------------------------------------------
                           ......Voter Stats.......    Current
  Name                     Average   Count   StdDev    Rating
===============================================================
  Average                                                8.1
  Standard Deviation                                     2.2
  Median                                                 8.5
===============================================================
  Arnel Guanlao              5.8      (41)     3.3       0.0
  Enoch Forrester            5.1      (78)     2.6       4.0
  Robert Richard             5.5      (58)     2.6       4.7
  K. Yoshida                 5.5      (79)     2.6       5.2
  David Yeung                7.3      (62)     1.0       5.5
  Gregory Matteucci          7.0      (41)     1.8       6.0
  George Workman             7.3      (21)     1.8       6.5
  Edward Keller              5.7      (79)     2.7       7.0
  John Quintanilla           6.7      (79)     2.0       7.0
  Bruce Hoye                 6.5      (78)     1.3       7.2
  Natalie Foster             7.6      (67)     1.0       7.5
  Alex Kostek                8.8      (36)     1.1       7.5
  Nelson Lu                  7.4      (62)     1.9       7.5
  Jeff Jacques               7.5      (10)     0.8       7.8
  Marianne Lubianetzky       6.9      (79)     2.4       7.8
  E.A. Berger                6.8      (36)     1.3       8.0
  Walter Czarniecki          6.4      (79)     1.8       8.3
  Lou Davidson               7.5      (46)     1.6       8.5
  Niomi Peckham              8.2      (12)     2.3       8.5
  Michael Dosmann            9.0      (30)     0.6       8.6
  Brian Lehr                 7.1      (76)     1.6       8.6
  Mike Heffner               6.8      (79)     1.7       8.8
  Monica Cellio              5.3      (79)     2.5       9.0
  Lucy Kukwa                 7.5      (78)     2.6       9.5
  Karen Naves                7.5      (79)     3.1       9.5
  Hans Bushan                8.9      (79)     1.0      10.0
  Graham Force               4.8      (79)     5.0      10.0
  Dan Kukwa                  7.4      (79)     2.3      10.0
  Lisa Kukwa                 8.0      (78)     2.4      10.0
  Stan Kukwa                 7.1      (78)     2.8      10.0
  James McCormack            9.9      (79)     1.1      10.0
  Pedro Muino                7.9      (79)     1.5      10.0
  Adam Niejadlik             7.1      (78)     2.8      10.0
  Chris Niejadlik            9.2       (6)     1.2      10.0
  Laura Schatz               6.5       (2)     4.9      10.0
  Jeffery C Taylor           8.8       (4)     0.9      10.0
  Carolee Wende              8.5      (71)     1.2      10.0
---------------------------------------------------------------

If you're new to the S.O.S., please keep reading.  If you're familiar
with the system, you can move along to the next article now.



WHAT IS IT?

  The S.O.S. (Spoiler-free Opinion Summary) is a twice-weekly posting
  (and a web site) run by yours truly.  Its purpose is to provide an
  indication of the Net's reaction to new episodes of several
  current sci-fi series, namely
  
    * Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    * Star Trek: Voyager
      
HOW DO I JOIN IN?

  Watch a new episode of any of the series covered by the SOS.  Then...
  
    * Surf on over to "http://jreiss.host4u.com/sos/".
    * If you haven't already, follow the link to the registration page
      and register your name and password.
    * Now follow the "Submit your ratings" link back on the home page.
    * Submit your ratings on a 0 to 10 scale (10 being best) for the
      episodes airing that week, or link to additional pages where you
      can view/modify your ratings for previous episodes of any of the
      SOS series.
      
  ...or, if you don't have web access...
  
    * Send an email to "s...@jreiss.host4u.com".
    * Include your rating for the episode on a 0 to 10 scale (10 being
      best).
    * Include your first and last name, especially if it doesn't appear
      in the header of your message.  Having it in your sig is fine.
    * DO NOT include spoilers!
    * Try to submit before I make the postings, on Thursday and
      Monday evenings.  If you don't, that's OK.  Any ratings I get
      after the second posting will be used to calculate episode
      averages and will appear on the web pages, but they will not
      appear in any postings.
    * You may submit changes to your ratings later.  But it'd be a lot
      easier for everyone involved if you could use the web interface
      instead!
      
HOW STATISTICALLY SOUND IS IT?

  IT'S NOT!  About all you can reasonably deduce from these numbers
  is that one episode with a substantially higher average than another
  episode from the same series is probably better.  There are too many
  problems with the method of vote collection to support any stronger
  statistical argument.  So remember, this is just a fun, informal
  measure of fan opinion, and it should not be interpreted as anything
  more.

This concludes this installment of the S.O.S.  Join us next posting
for more exciting adventures... and keep those opinions coming!

Joe
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