From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2007-05-04T09:05:05+09:00
Subject: Unofficial Ruby Quiz -- Ranking Choices

Apparently some people around here can't stand Ruby Quiz withdrawal. For 
those people, here's a quiz question I just came up with.

I have a list of some items, and I would like to manually rank which ones 
are most important to me. But it's not easy to rank them when I'm looking 
at them all at once, so I'd like to consider them in pairs and choose 
from each pair which one is most important to me. Then I'd like to use my 
answers to those questions to create a ranked list. Anyone think they can 
come up with a good program to quiz me about these items pairwise, and 
output a ranking?

Extra credit: come up with a solution that lets me take the quiz multiple 
times, and outputs a single ranked list reflecting all of my sessions 
taking the quiz.

I have my solution to the basic question, but I want to see what other 
people come up with.

--Ken

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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/