Subject: Re: "Your Rank" Statistics Anomaly
From: baskitcaise
Date: 30/08/2003, 23:34
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Bill wrote:

Since last December when I finally moved in to the top 1% of users, I
have been tracking my stats. Since that time, I have consistently
moved up in my place rank (then at 28688th place and I had completed
more work units than 99.306% of users).

By Aug 27th, I had steadily moved up to 15454th place - usually tied
with several other users, and had moved ahead of 99.667% of users.

All of a sudden, sometime between Aug 27th and Aug 29th, I dropped
nearly 200 places to 15645th place and ahead of 99.663% of users. I
don't understand as there has never been a drop since I started
recording this.

I realize this sounds like a minuscule drop but keep in mind that with
over 4.5 million users, that .004% drop represents more than 18,000
users jumping ahead of me in just a day or two.

Since yesterday, (as I type this it is Aug 30 @ 8:41am) I have moved
up 52 places and gained .001% point, so it seems we are back on track
- but I wonder what happened.

Ideas?


I have had the same here was 99.303 on tuesday and then got bumped back to
99.297 now back up to 99.300.

must be something to do with the cpu that went and messed the db I think.

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