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Artist Listing: By "Quality Ratings"

Each artist was rated a number of times internally by members of the guild (i.e. colorists). In addition to just number ratings (1-10), they were given comments and critiques to help the artists improve. Unfortunately, participation wasn't at its best for this first round of ratings, and so in the future the method will be reworked so that it isn't as anonymous, which might pressure people to change their ratings, but it will at least pressure them to RATE. Anyhow, we did get enough to get a pretty basic understanding of "how good" each person's coloring is.

The shortcomings of this system are obviously those of the Art Arena: It's all based on whether a person likes the artist's coloring or not. It doesn't take into account style; perhaps someone got a low score simply because a few people rating them hated cell-style, for example. Or they just didn't appreciate their unique style and wanted something more mainstream. However, it does give buyers a rough idea of the general consensus about an artist's work. Most artists actually received pretty much the same rating from everyone who rated them, but those with lots of variation -- possibly for style preferences or whatnot -- are noted on this list. To compensate for this effect, we're using two "measures of center," the median AND the mean.

Mean score takes each and every value, adds them together and then divides by the total number of values. This is what most people think of when they think "average." However, Means are very sensitive to outliers (Outliers are crazy high or crazy low numbers averaged in. For example, if nine people in a room each had 1 dollar, but the tenth was Donald Trump, on average everyone in the room would be a millionaire!). Sometimes means don't tell the whole story, which is why we're also using the median, which is NOT affected by outliers.

Median score is when you take all the values and line them up from lowest to largest. Then you pick out the one value exactly in the middle of the data set. In the Donald Trump example, the data set would look like this:
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, millions!
and the middle value would be in between the 5th and 6th values, and when you average (mean) those together you get 1 (data sets with an even number of values have two medians which you add together and divide by two to get one median number, while data sets with an odd number of values just have one value that is right in the middle). Therefore, the Median value in the room is 1. Medians are used frequently in the real world to talk about salaries or house prices.

The last number also given under each colorist's name is "s" which is short for "standard deviation." This number reflects how much variation there is between ratings. A higher "s" value means that people didn't really agree on what to rate that person's art, whereas a very low number (close to zero) means that everyone gave them the same score. Colorists with a high standard deviation (we've decided to call 1 and above high, and below 1 low) will be highlighted in red. These are ones who may have unique styles or some other reason why no one could agree on what rating to give them.










Ratings Arranged by MEDIAN score
(see above for definition of "median")
in cases of a tie, those with the same score arranged secondarily by Mean

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Roseanne
avg: 8.65
s: .668
median: 9

AnimeJet
avg: 8.44
s: .821
median: 9

Pixel Wicheta
avg: 8.25
s: .886
median: 8

!Mech_scara
avg: 7.64
s: .945
median: 8

Immunity
avg: 7.28
s: .994
median: 7.5

Jeseia Moretia
avg: 7
s: .577
median: 7

Sora Icefreeze
avg: 6.72
s: .667
median: 7

QueenofShaniqwaland
avg: 6.37
s: .916
median: 7

Anetra_Pendragon
avg: 6.56
s: 1.12
median: 6.5

missjtsang
avg: 6.5
s: 1.06
median: 6

Khetienn
avg: 6.1
s: .516
median: 6

Chicky-chans Ghost
avg: 5.37
s: .475
median:5

spy//alex
avg: 4.78
s: 1.03
median: 5

Farnath
avg: 3.93
s: .932
median: 4

Celria
avg: 3.81
s: 1.25
median: 3.75

[-~=Balmung=~-]
avg: 3.14
s: .900
median: 3
























Ratings Arranged by MEAN score
(see above for definition of "mean")


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Roseanne
avg: 8.65
s: .668
median: 9

AnimeJet
avg: 8.44
s: .821
median: 9

Pixel Wicheta
avg: 8.25
s: .886
median: 8

!Mech_scara
avg: 7.64
s: .945
median: 8

Immunity
avg: 7.28
s: .994
median: 7.5

Jeseia Moretia
avg: 7
s: .577
median: 7

Sora Icefreeze
avg: 6.72
s: .667
median: 7

Anetra_Pendragon
avg: 6.56
s: 1.12
median: 6.5

missjtsang
avg: 6.5
s: 1.06
median: 6

QueenofShaniqwaland
avg: 6.37
s: .916
median: 7

Khetienn
avg: 6.1
s: .516
median: 6

Chicky-chans Ghost
avg: 5.37
s: .475
median:5

spy//alex
avg: 4.78
s: 1.03
median: 5

Farnath
avg: 3.93
s: .932
median: 4

Celria
avg: 3.81
s: 1.25
median: 3.75

[-~=Balmung=~-]
avg: 3.14
s: .900
median: 3

Pricing: Highest to Lowest

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