EdoArad answers Prize: Interesting Examples of Evaluations

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1. Psychological evaluation

2. Job interview

3. Debate competition judge

4. Using emotion recognition (say by image recognition) to find out consumer’s preferences

5. Measuring Pavlov’s dog saliva

6. Debate in ancient greek

7. Factored cognition

8. forecasting

9. karma on the forum /​ reddit

10. democratic voting

11. Stock prices as an evaluation of a companies value

12. Bibliometrics. Impact factor.

13. Using written recommendations to evaluate candidates.

14. Measuring truth-telling using a polygraph

15. Justice system evaluation of how bad crimes are based on previous cases

16. Justice system use of a Jury

17. Lottery—random evaluation

18. Measuring dopamine signals as a proxy to a fly’s brain valence (which is an evaluation of its situation)

19. throw stuff into a neural net

20. python $eval$

21. Discrete Valuation Rings

22. Signaling value using jewels.

23. Evaluation based on social class

24. fight to the death

25. torturing people until they confess

26. market price

27. A mathematical exam

28. A high-school history exam

29. An ADHD test

30. Stress testing a phone by putting it in extreme situations

31. checking if a car is safe by using a crash dummy and checking impact force

32. Software testing

33. Open source as a signal of “someone had looked into me and I’m still fine”

34. Colonoscopy

35. number of downloads for an app

36. running polls

37. running stuff by experts

38. asking god what she thinks of it

39. The choice of a pope

40. Public consensus, 50 years down the line

41. RCT

42. broad population study

43. Nobel prize committee

44. Testing purity of chemical ingredients

45. Testing problems in chip manufacturing

46. Reproduce a study/​project and see if the results replicate

47. Set quantitative criteria in advance, and check the results after the fact

48. ask people what they’d think that the results would be in advance, and ask people to evaluate the results afterward. Focus the evaluation on the parameters which the people before the test did not consider

49. Adequacy analysis (like in Inadequate Equilibria)

50. a flagging system for moderators

51. New York Times Best Seller list

52. subjective evaluation

53. subjective evaluation when on drugs

54. subjective evaluation by psychopaths (which are also perfect utilitarians!)

55. subjective evaluation by a color choosing octopus

56. Managerial decisions (a 15-minute powerpoint presentation and then an arbitrary decision)

57. Share-holder reports

58. bottleneck/​limiting-factor analysis

59. Crucial considerations

60. Theory of Change model

61. Taking a set amount of time to critically analyze the subject, focusing on trying to find as many downsides.

62. Using weights and a two-sided scale to measure goods.

63. Setting a benchmark that one only evaluates against.

64. A referee evaluating a Boxing match

65. Using score for football

66. Buying a car—getting the information from the seller and assessing their truthfullness

67. Looking at a fancy report and judging based on length, images, and businessy words

Grammarly

1. peer review in science

2. citations count

3. journal status

4. grant making—assessing requests, say by scoring according to a fixed scoring template

5. evaluating a scoring template by comparing similarity of different people’s scoring of the same text

6. Code review

7. Fact-Checking

8. Editor going through a text

9. 360 peer feedback—sociometry

10. gut intuition after long relationship/​experience

11. Amazon Reviews

12. ELO

13. Chess engine position assessment

14. Theoretical assessment of a chess position—experts explaining what is good or bad about the position

15. Running a tournament starting with this position, evaluating based on success percentage

16. multiple choice exam

17. political lobbying for or against something

18. the grandma test

It was fun! Hope that something here might be helpful :)