I’m taking a little survey. When one is evaluating search results, is that called a relevance test or a relevancy test?
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It doesn’t matter. Just call it a “relevance test” and move forward. 🙂
ain’t dey synonyms?
Around here we call it a “Test to see if the user is really getting what they want to see test” We find that this adds clarity that is missing from the terms “Relevance” and “Relevancy”.
I say both are fine. Depends on how fond of using the letter “Y” you are. I suppose you could say that if the subject of your test is relevance, then it is a relevance test, and if the subject of the test is a particular thing, and you want to know its relevance in relation to various other things, that would be a relevancy test of said thing. I’d say they’re really the same, though, because you could kind of reverse that argument.
Hmm. What was the question again?
Is it a Bird or a Flower? Doesn’t matter what it is…. get’er done.
i think it’s irrelevant.