How does Logicracy calculate my skill and how does my skill affect opinion questions?
First, remember that skill in a subject is only one of several user attributes that can be used in analysis. If you don’t believe Logicracy can reliably measure skill, then don’t use skill in your analysis. Skill rating is not to be confused with expertise level , which is not used in analysis. You earn a skill rating in a subject by answering questions in that subject. Before you start answering questions, you specify the subject from which skill-testing questions will be randomly taken and the subject from which opinion questions will be randomly taken. You are given about one opinion question for every ten skill questions. A new user, however, will not receive an opinion question until after the first fifty skill questions. You may answer any number of questions any time you like. Your skill rating is kept separately for each subject. It is an indicator of your recent performance (over roughly the last several hundred questions) in a subject. Your skill rating is 1 if you answer eve
