{"id":12106,"date":"2014-01-05T11:31:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T17:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12106"},"modified":"2014-01-05T03:25:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T09:25:44","slug":"the-mathematics-of-gamification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12106","title":{"rendered":"The Mathematics of Gamification"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>At Foursquare, we have a simple, first-principles based method of resolving proposed venue attribute updates. We can gauge each Superuser\u2019s voting accuracy based on their performance on honeypots (proposed updates with known answers which are deliberately inserted into the updates queue). Measuring performance and using these probabilities correctly is the key to how we assign points to a Superuser\u2019s vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Math<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s make this more concrete with some math.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.foursquare.com\/2014\/01\/03\/the-mathematics-of-gamification\/\">The Mathematics of Gamification | Foursquare Engineering Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Foursquare, we have a simple, first-principles based method of resolving proposed venue attribute updates. We can gauge each Superuser\u2019s voting accuracy based on their performance on honeypots (proposed updates with known answers which are deliberately inserted into the updates &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=12106\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[532,1127,915,180],"class_list":["post-12106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-analytics","tag-game-theory","tag-honeypot","tag-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12107,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106\/revisions\/12107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}