Another link you might care to share is to the ACX Awards Page unless you omission was deliberate, in which case sorry, you can delete this.
.... for work on Seeds of Science, a scientific journal which publishes articles that are nontraditional in content or style with peer review conducted through voting and commenting by a community of "gardeners" (free to join, visit this page for details). ... has been exploring the role of amateurs in science, most recently in this journal article (non-conflict of interest note: the article mentions the SSC Surveys as an example of good amateur science, but this grant decision was made primarily by an outside reviewer). He also writes under the name Roger's Bacon at Secretum Secretorum.
Another link you might care to share is to the ACX Awards Page unless you omission was deliberate, in which case sorry, you can delete this.
.... for work on Seeds of Science, a scientific journal which publishes articles that are nontraditional in content or style with peer review conducted through voting and commenting by a community of "gardeners" (free to join, visit this page for details). ... has been exploring the role of amateurs in science, most recently in this journal article (non-conflict of interest note: the article mentions the SSC Surveys as an example of good amateur science, but this grant decision was made primarily by an outside reviewer). He also writes under the name Roger's Bacon at Secretum Secretorum.
Hehe I didn't want to toot my horn too much... but it is worth sharing and I'll probably do so in a future post.
You'd better do so :)
The IQ-hotness evaluation should definitely use some rank-based correlation. Hotness is apparently non-linear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank_correlation