Date: 20 Feb 2015
I emailed and spoke to Aj. Panpiti to clarify some requirements. This is one of them.
Question: Should a voter be allowed to submit a partial vote? That is, can he elect to not score some teams for some criteria?
Aj. Panpiti's Answer:
Yes, vote for some groups should be counted. However, when a voter evaluates a group, all questions for that group should be answered. If a voter does not want to vote on an ordinal/scale/ratio question, he/she should be able to tick on "no vote" rather than leave it blank or be forced to pick one randomly. Comments are allowed to leave it blank.
Requirement Change:
- Voters are not required to evaluate all contestants (teams) before submitting their vote.
- For contestant (team) evaluation items, there should be a choice that means "no vote" or "no score" for that item.
- Because of item 1 above, voters should be allowed to vote on "choose-1" items (like "Best Project") without evaluating every team.