[P2P-F] Advice re reputation metrics

Sun Sep 23 15:15:20 CEST 2012

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> Reputation metric makes me squirm.  Any form of Scientific Method and I
> mean 'Form" that is attempted is dubious at best, and will fail to garner
> results.  The existential chit chat with colleagues may be more useful.
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with all the thousands of them, with many of which I've never had and will
have a chance to mee person?

reputation in small, face-to-face groups is easy

when we also want to collaborate in large, global networks of peers, then
we need something more feasible than the existential chit chat, IMHO

george

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On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Denis Postle <d.postle at btinternet.com>wrote:
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>>  Hi Robin,
>> I don't know how you would apply it to complementary currencies but
>> various versions of the arrangements you outline have been in place for 17
>> years in The Independent Practitioner Network [IPN] <http://i-p-n.org/>that I belong to in the UK. Smaller groups than you mention, 5-8, meet
>> every six weeks or so. Their task is get to know each other well enough to
>> be able to 'stand by' their work with clients (a reputation 'metric'?). For
>> me the strong version of this derives from 'self and peer assessment'<http://www.human-inquiry.com/asre.htm>based on a list of mutually agreed criteria, which is what you seem to be
>> suggesting.
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>> I have written about this extensively, see my forthcoming book Therapy
>> Futures <http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/therapy-futures/#> and
>> previously Regulating the psychological therapies.<http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/regulating-the-psychological-therapies-from-taxonomy-to-taxidermy/#.UF63CVEpXnj>
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>> In my experience your assumption...
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>> ... that self-determination, that is, autonomy (intrinsic motivation),
>> relatedness and competence is vital for social justice where for
>> individuals to be self-determining, everyone else must be self-determining.
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>> ...is very sound.
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>> A critical other dimension is that the distribution of power is
>> constantly under scrutiny, ie that dominance and subordination are
>> eliminated. This doesn't mean that hierarchies of experience and skill are
>> eliminated but that decision making is consensual. A tough task this since
>> domination often seems to me to be in the grain of the times.
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>> I hope this helps
>> Denis
>> denisATpostle.net
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>> On 23/09/2012 01:00, robin wrote:
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>>  Hi All
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>> I am researching (via a PhD with the University of Tasmania) the idea of
>> a reputation metric as a currency in a complementary currency project to
>> test whether it would increase trust and other prosocial behaviours in
>> local communities but most importantly to scale up trust between people
>> that don’t know each other. What ideas do people have about how you would
>> structure a reputation metric in practice? My vague ideas at the moment are
>> that you could have resilience circles, small groups of 20 to 30 people who
>> would meet once a month. They would act as support for each other, but also
>> the group would allocate a score for individuals over the previous month
>> based on set criteria for how each have exchanged with other people whether
>> in the group or with others in different groups against the criteria which
>> would attempt to vaguely measure autonomy, competence and relatedness. My
>> research is based on the assumption that self-determination, that is,
>> autonomy (intrinsic motivation), relatedness and competence is vital for
>> social justice where for individuals to be self-determining, everyone else
>> must be self-determining.
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>>  Any advice appreciated, eg are there are other groups that I could this
>> to that might be relevant? Do I need to supply more information?
>> Thanks & regards
>> Robin
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