[phpesp-general] re: rate type results

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

Olaf, I am CC'ing the phpesp-general mailing list on this
discussion, I would like for you to join the list and
continue the discussion there.
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, olaf wrote:
> It looks like the 0 for the value is not correct. when
> the result is calculated the avareg is made over all
> values from that choice. But a 0 is not used
> tocalculated (only ratings greater than 0 are used by
> the select and average of 0 is also 0...) . When i
> check only the 1. rank i never get a result.

There was a bug in that. Try using the latest code from the
CVS tree (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=8956).

> Another question :-) When i ue precision 1 for that
> ranking, i get another row with N/A but in the result
> these lines are not used (value is -1 in the
> response_rank table) So is it planed to be in the
> result or is it wrong that the N/A field is possible?

Yeah, the precision option enables or disables the use of
the "N/A" field (not applicable). If a respondant checks
"N/A" then they are not counted in the "TOTAL" for that
option. For example, the first respondant picks "3" for a
question, and the second picks "2". The results now show
"2.5" as the average (3+2)/2. Then the third picks "N/A",
the result is *still* "2.5" because even though there are
three responses, only the first two are considered because
the third said that the question was not applicable (for
whatever reason). However, as you have seen, the database
keeps track of the number of "N/A" responses ... How would
you suggest handling this data when showing the results.

-James