contribute
Argue with it
The library is the part of this project that is genuinely unfinished, and it is the part that somebody outside this household is better placed to fix. No account, one screen, and nothing about you is collected.
Three routes
Something we don't have
A task you actually do that isn't in the library. The most valuable thing you can send, and the shortest.
A weight that looks wrong
Which row, and what it should sit above or below. A comparison can be acted on; feels wrong on its own cannot.
Work we under-count
Whole kinds of work this instrument can't see yet. The most interesting submissions arrive here.
How a weight actually changes
Worth stating before you spend ten minutes on a submission, because it is not what most feedback forms do with what they collect.
- Contributions are evidence and argument, not votes. Fifty people saying a number is too low does not move it. One good comparison — this sits above that, and it shouldn't — does.
- Every accepted change is published with its reason, in a changelog, in the same convention the rest of this project uses: cite the finding it rests on, and where there is no finding, say so and label it a judgement.
- The research does not get overruled by correspondence. Where a submission conflicts with a study, the conflict gets written down and left standing rather than resolved in either direction.
- Calibrating the model itself — the coefficients, the bands — happens against real households, not against the post. A contribution can change the library; it does not change the maths.
- Nothing is published as you wrote it. Submissions are read and summarised. Free text has a way of containing names, and none of that goes anywhere near a public page.
What we do with what you send
We read it, and if it changes the library it appears in the changelog with the reasoning. If it doesn't, that is usually because a comparison argued the other way — and where it is a close call that will be said too.
Contributions go to one person. They are not sold, shared, or fed to anything. Details of what is kept and for how long are on the privacy page.
One thing worth knowing about the shape of the library
A task in Champignon is one thing a person could hand over whole. That is why there is no single row called cleaning — an instrument that scores cleaning as one card cannot show that one of you does the surfaces and the other holds the entire question of when the bathroom is dirty. It is also why the library is 402 rows rather than a hundred, and why 103 of them are not seeded into a new household at all but found by searching.
If you are about to tell us a row is too granular, that argument is welcome — it is the most common criticism of this whole category of product, and it cuts both ways.