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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Currently, my state page tells me "Points Generated (Rank) 322,787 (#125,400)". Neither of those values are actually meaningful. What would be infinitely more useful is instead of the rank, #125,400-- WHICH IS MEANINGLESS SINCE I DON'T KNOW OUT OF HOW MANY, SO IT ONLY TELLS ME HALF THE PICTURE-- more meaningful would be the -=percentile=-. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile
Just a thought... Jeff |
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gordoma
Veteran Cruncher Windsor, UK Joined: Jul 21, 2005 Post Count: 729 Status: Offline Project Badges: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Hi Jeff. I know that the top crunchers use the rankings in a very granular manner and therefore would probably not want to see them go. However, for us mere mortals, I think that the addition of percentiles would help give some perspective and encouragement, so perhaps this is something that can be added to the rankings?
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Currently, my state page tells me "Points Generated (Rank) 322,787 (#125,400)". Neither of those values are actually meaningful. What would be infinitely more useful is instead of the rank, #125,400-- which is meaningless since I don't know out of how many, so it only tells me half the picture-- more meaningful would be the -=percentile=-. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile Just a thought... Jeff Thanks for the suggestion. |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2986 Status: Offline Project Badges: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Certainly gets my vote as well
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Me too!
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branjo
Master Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jun 29, 2012 Post Count: 1892 Status: Offline Project Badges: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
cmvi :-)
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
After sleeping on it, the current ranking only tells me how many folks have contributed more than I. If the rankings were reversed, it would only tell me how many folks I'm contributing more than, which is equally useless. I desire the rankings to be expressed as a percentile only since it gives me a feel for where I rank in terms of how much I contribute to W.C.G. -=in relation to others=-. I want to know that since in the original post my rank was #125,400, and if that is 125,400th out of 125,400 participants, wow, I'm am the worst contributor. (but at least I DO contribute, which is already a win) ([sarcasm] and not that I'm competitive or anything) If that is 125,400th out of 1,000,000,000,000 participants, all right then, you're welcome W.C.G. :-)
And I agree with gordoma that this should not be a change, it should only be an new additional statistic. [PREMISE] Change the way something works and you'll always upset folks. [/PREMISE] But the ranking as it is doesn't give me any *useful* feedback, so I vote for either (a) add the percentile ranking, or (b) take away the ranking altogether, but because of the preceding premise, that won't go well. Also, well said gordoma, it's about perspective and encouragement. And getting folks interested in increasing their -=percentile=- results in an orgasmic flurry of more and more CPU cycles donated, since as person A increases their donation, their percentile goes up... until person B also increases their donated cycles and A drops back down again. And instead of two people, scale that to the size of the W.C.G. user-base... |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
We have added this to our development backlog for consideration.
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1675 Status: Recently Active Project Badges: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Hi guys,
----------------------------------------take a look on boincstats , it does provide exactly the information you are requesting. Cheers, Yves |
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TPCBF
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 2, 2011 Post Count: 1953 Status: Offline Project Badges: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Hi guys, +1take a look on boincstats , it does provide exactly the information you are requesting. Cheers, Yves Or any of the other couple dozen or so BOINC stats sites. The only real change that I would suggest is that it is time to drop the "WCG points" and display the BOINC credits (just as on the "Result Status" page)... Ralf ![]() |
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