Robin, I noticed that your background is sociology. Is that correct? Mine is math and computer science.<br><br>In Computer science much effort has been put in providing relative, good information. Some of those efforts have tried to use trust. From <br>
a mathematical point of view, any recomendation system is good as long as its predictability is good, if the recommendations it provides<br>are considered usefull inforamation. This is easy to test and benchmark. <br>(this is a good reference <a href="http://www.trustlet.org">www.trustlet.org</a> )<br>
<br>How is trust related to information?� Even if the reasons for the creations of trust are complex and should be studied by sociologists, trusts main reason of existence<br>in my opinion is the reduction of complexity of information. <br>
In that context someone cannot study trust without studying the effects of trust, the propagation of information.<br><br>The main problem with computer scientists these days is that they are hired by companies that want to make money. In that context, I dont know <br>
of any research that tries to study the effect on trust between people and the behavioral changes that are the results of reputation/recommendation systems.<br>Another reason for that, one could say is that computer scientists luck the skills to do so.<br>
<br><br>Computer aided information propagation through trust is a very new field but it has a lot of potential. How can local trust, ie trust between <br>friends be used to provide global properties in the information space and how these global properties give incentive to people to create local trust bonds?<br>
<br>One community that tries to use trust in such a way is<a href="http://ripple-project.org/"> ripple</a>.<br>My project which is a forkable wikipedia is another.<br><br>Both are quite new. I , for example, am stuck to programming the infrastructure and dont have a lot of time for theoretical work.<br>
<br>If you want more information, join the ripple discussion group. I ll be happy to answer you any more questions.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/9/23 joseph orlando <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adaz829@gmail.com" target="_blank">adaz829@gmail.com</a>></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>�</div><div>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.</div>
<div>�</div><div>�</div><div>Thank you</div><span><font color="#888888"><div>�</div><div>�</div><div>Joseph<br><br></div></font></span><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Denis Postle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d.postle@btinternet.com" target="_blank">d.postle@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<font face="Trebuchet MS">Hi Robin,<br>
I don't know how you would apply it to complementary currencies</font>
but various versions of the arrangements you outline have been in
place for 17 years in <a href="http://i-p-n.org/" target="_blank">The Independent
Practitioner Network [IPN]</a> 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 <a href="http://www.human-inquiry.com/asre.htm" target="_blank">'self and peer
assessment'</a> based on a list of mutually agreed criteria, which
is what you seem to be suggesting.<br>
<br>
I have written about this extensively, see my forthcoming book <a href="http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/therapy-futures/#" target="_blank">Therapy
Futures</a> and previously <a href="http://www.pccs-books.co.uk/products/regulating-the-psychological-therapies-from-taxonomy-to-taxidermy/#.UF63CVEpXnj" target="_blank">Regulating
the psychological therapies.</a><br>
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In my experience your assumption...<br>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">... 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.</font><br>
<br>
...is very sound. <br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
I hope this helps <br>
Denis<br>
denisATpostle.net<br>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin-bottom:0pt" class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
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<div>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?</div>
<div>Thanks & regards</div>
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