User blog comment:Wildoneshelper/Wildoneshelper Index (Measuring the hardest levels publicly)/@comment-23204006-20131113151910/@comment-3225604-20131114134400

No, this is an index like Ernst & Young Globalization Index. It is an index for reference purposes. This means it will not affect the difficulty of the wiki. Like many indexes, it may not represent the best data, like Gini coefficient. The index is trying to toggle to what the public thinks weekly. This means the index can change from time to time. If one week has many people saying the level is hard, the index goes up. However, if the next week has many people saying the level is easy, the index goes down. That's the reason why I create this index, because this applies to level 181, which there is a period when many people claim the level is "very hard", whilst the period we are now is many people that claim the level is "insanely hard".

As this is under my name, I won't unveil it to the respective level pages. This is to prepare that the difficulty of the level is changed. Therefore, I won't change my mind and remain my support in deleting the difficulty. Moreover, under my name means this index is how I find how people find the difficulty, so I will never put it to the pages.

Once again, this index is just representing the present data we have in the web, and may not represent the difficulty of the level fully by itself. It is how averaged people find the difficulty of the level. Therefore, this index measures the data by the people here relatively, but not absolutely. Same as Gini coefficient, the proper use and interpretation of Wildoneshelper Index can be controversial. You may think if Gini coefficient should not be used, maybe the same as you think to Wildoneshelper Index. This index may not be running the best at the moment, but I hope it will in the future.

Finally, I have not changed my mind.