So let's say you indeed have done so and now you know that that node is at 11 points. How do you interpret this?

Did you even read my reply?

Quoting myself: "What that eleven actually means depends entirely on context but it isn't meaningless."

All your other points still reduce to examining relations of node reps.

About relative node reps, I went on to say, "That might help, as would any contextual information, but it isn't strictly necessary and may not even be available (such as if it is the only reply in the thread.)" And then I listed several examples where the relation between node reps was not as revealing as the node rep itself.

What you're really looking for is some kind of standard deviation metric.

No, I'm not. Since I'm just saying the same things I've said before anyway, I'll quote from one of my replies to chromatic:

"You are a human being, not a series of branching statements, chromatic. You don't need rules like if ($rep >= $mean_rep_for_frontpaged_nodes && $rep > $mean_rep_for_this_node)... you just need some common sense. Being human, you won't find it difficult to formulate guesses as to what node rep means in the context that it appears. Furthermore, you will automatically attach a probability (in the form of an intuitive feeling) to how likely your guesses are correct. And, you'll get better at it over time."

I went on to point out that "node reputation and experience are part of the Perl Monks environment." And I said, "Being human, we will learn to interpret the cues in our environment no matter how fuzzy they are."

Like I said... "same ol' same ol'" cause I've said it all before.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";