Exercise: observer agreement about eye colour, answer 5

Question

What might be plausible weights for the pairs of eye colour categories?

Suggested answer

I suggest that we give disagreement weights such that minor disagreements are weighted 1 and other disagreements are weighted 2, as follows:

    black     brown       blue         grey         hazel   green     other  
black     0 1 2 2 2 2 2
brown 1 0 2 2 1 2 2
blue 2 2 0 1 2 2 2
grey 2 2 1 0 2 1 2
hazel 2 1 2 2 0 1 2
green 2 2 2 1 1 0 2
other 2 2 2 2 2 2 0

You may disagree, there is no right answer to this.


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