Maybe if project X is a good cause? Not everyone wants to search for ETI and not everyone cares about stats.If the credits given out by all BOINC projects are going to be continually judged against Seti and 'fixed' if they are found to be higher then why run anything but Seti?
Really, this topic just needs needs nailing, and for me it comes down to one of two options:
- Stop comparing the value of a stat unit between BOINC projects
- Normalise the value of a stat unit against something
Obviously the first option is easy and the second option is difficult. It seems we're in the situation where some projects are normalising against SETI (or others) and some are just doing their own thing. Either way, I couldn't really care less. As far as I'm concerned, each project is entitled to score however they like, BOINC or not.
Before BOINC came along we weren't saying things like "I've done 100,000 stats units on RC5-64 but you've only processed 500 SETI WUs! I'm better than you!". So why don't we just stop summing up our BOINC scores and start taking them as separate values?