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I dont see how it matters. Compare your Queen Alice Rating with other Queen Alice ratings and you should have an idea of who is stronger. The Only ratings that matter are official USCF or FIDE. And OTB is the only true rating, because here you are allowed to use books etc. to choose your move. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy correspondence, I believe it helps your OTB play, but it is more of who is better at research.
I bet there is not a person here whose OTB is within 200 pts of their corr.
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allowed to use books??
what is the point in that,...
I just sit down and try to think of the best move each and everytime! 
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by the way Harassment....
there is also another rating that matters,
Chess Federation of Canada
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My paragraphs aren't contradictory at all. Most people have several different ratings through various methods, and from what I've read, the same person generally has a correspondence rating ~200 pts. higher than his/her over the board rating. Yes, the ratings are relative only to one type of play and to the players within that group, but players play in many groups and can compare their own ratings in them against each other. Which, by the way, the original question of this topic.
I contradict myself often, but I did not do so here. I've seen this discussion on many sites and the 200 point rule of thumb seems to be mentioned several different times.
One other subtle effect which might skew ratings: Better players are probably better able to use the extra time correspondence chess allows. When I first started playing here, I played each move as quickly as I would have over the board. Since then I started using the think function and my rating is ~1750. I'm not that good, I just probably spend more time per move than less experienced people. My guess is we don't have as much middle ground as a larger distribution would.
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Sorry Pestilence, my first reply was rather over-agressive. The point I was trying to make was that the average rating and the spread of ratings should be the same whether it's correspondence chess, OTB chess or tiddlywinks. Yep, you're quite correct in that some people may take more advantage of the benefits of correspondence chess to improve their rating relative to the rest of the pool - but the corollorary of that is that those who don't will suffer a similar decline in ratings. Taking all the players in the pool as a whole, the average rating should be the same whatever the game.
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