Why are the numbers so low? (Score: 1) by koen@pipedot.org on 2014-06-12 16:28 (#22Y) At this point 101 have voted, the highest count is "operating systems" with 14%I'm a bit surprized, I would expect it to be far over 50%, the same goes for some of the other categories.I added the percentages, they add up to 99%, which is not even 100% - I would expect a sum closer to, say, 200%.Why come to this iste if you're hardly interested in the subjects discussed around here?The only explanation I can imagine is that voters do not realize they can vote for more than one option (or even all of them) - maybe that needs to be made clear in the header. Or is the |. approval vote system bugged? Re: Why are the numbers so low? (Score: 1) by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2014-06-13 04:36 (#239) I don't know how and why you would have 200%. That makes no sense at all. We are talking about percentages and not about individual votes.The votes are normalised so that the total is 100%. The sum of 99% that you see is probably the rounding error. 14% of the total votes is "operating systems'.This is what you would expect and this is the usual way of representing similar data. Re: Why are the numbers so low? (Score: 1) by koen@pipedot.org on 2014-06-13 07:46 (#23D) I guess you are right.I had interpreted the "number of votes" as "the number of voters" (actually: I considered filling in several boxes as one vote, but that has the same result) and assumed the results were normalized over the number of voters.It would be nice if the results would also show how many voters there are.
Re: Why are the numbers so low? (Score: 1) by axsdenied@pipedot.org on 2014-06-13 04:36 (#239) I don't know how and why you would have 200%. That makes no sense at all. We are talking about percentages and not about individual votes.The votes are normalised so that the total is 100%. The sum of 99% that you see is probably the rounding error. 14% of the total votes is "operating systems'.This is what you would expect and this is the usual way of representing similar data. Re: Why are the numbers so low? (Score: 1) by koen@pipedot.org on 2014-06-13 07:46 (#23D) I guess you are right.I had interpreted the "number of votes" as "the number of voters" (actually: I considered filling in several boxes as one vote, but that has the same result) and assumed the results were normalized over the number of voters.It would be nice if the results would also show how many voters there are.
Re: Why are the numbers so low? (Score: 1) by koen@pipedot.org on 2014-06-13 07:46 (#23D) I guess you are right.I had interpreted the "number of votes" as "the number of voters" (actually: I considered filling in several boxes as one vote, but that has the same result) and assumed the results were normalized over the number of voters.It would be nice if the results would also show how many voters there are.