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They're different numbers, but it makes no difference in terms of how far along the possible scale you are.

If I score money as 0-1 and luck as 0-1000, then I have a possible overall score out of 1000.

If I score 0.3 on money and 600 on "luck" then I've scored 180 out of 1000, or 18%.

Or if both are 0-1 then I'd have scored 0.3 and 0.6, and overall scored 0.18 out of 1, which is still 18%, it's just the absolute number that has changed.

But the absolute number isn't important in a scale which doesn't have meaningful units.



I understood the absolute number to be of significance as the goal (eg. the absolute number is however many millions $ you'll make as outcome). But point taken, I don't think this was thought through :)




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