Research interviews of scoring mechanism.

Today on the 6th of January I have initiated interviews with 2 peers, S & L to understand more how ot position a variation of privacay projects on the same scoring mechanism.

Initial question bases out of comparing the interviewee project to a different utility project.

Examples:

- In our current scoring mechanism we're having a problem to quantify multiple different projects on a similar scoring mechanism, such as comparing Rotki to ex. Monero this raises from having different datapoints, alongside different utility of a specific project. If you would compare these 2 projects, **how would you personally try to put them on the same stage and which points would you believe apply to both of these?**

- In our current scoring mechanism we're having a problem to quantify multiple different projects on a similar scoring mechanism, such as comparing Cake Wallet to ex. ethBerlin this raises from having different datapoints, alongside different utility of a specific project. **If you would compare let's say these 2 projects, how would you personally try to put them on the same stage to compare an event to an application?**

The initial answer received from we're quite straight forward, L argued

they are not comparable I would say. One is a blockchain offering private transactions. The other is a portfolio management tool that focuses on all data being local and data ownership, thus promoting privacy.

**it's like comparing apples and oranges.**

I'd argue that you can compare apples and oranges, as long as you have a broad enough metric system to compare these. In a fruit auction one uses similar ratings to compare these on the same scale. From freshness, to visual aesthethics, to size etc. This mirrors the classic idiom's intent—certain things remain incomparable depending on the lens you use!

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Need to refollow this strategy as currently nobody seens to have been following up on further questions.

Which questions could we ask:

- How would you score a project on privacy
- What makes a project more positive/negative on your privacy radar?
- Which privacy (dis)enhancing feautures do most projects have?
- This is nice to find and grade companies if they don't have something or if something is not nice to have ex; open- vs closed-source