Can anyone explain to me in this forum of Nascar???

Question

How one day you have a certain % and then the next day a lower %....Is it the questions asked or best answer how they determine the %'s..am confused..thanks

Answer 1

Thanks for asking..I was going to ask the same...

Answer 2

your % best answer is calculated by taking the number of "best answers" you have received and dividing that number by the total number of questions you have answered. in your case, you have answered 529 questions, and 37 of those have been chosen as best answer.

37 / 529 = 0.0699... or 6.99...%

the little "floating window" you see when hovering over an avatar shows this number "rounded up" to 7%. on your home page, however, it seems as if the programming truncates this number rather than rounding up, so it shows up as 6%.

and it can change easily within a day. go onto "polls and surveys" and answer a hundred questions and most likely you will not get many best answers - not your fault, just too many people answering too many questions. if you did that tonight, by tomorrow you'd have:

37 / 629 = 0.0588 or 5.88%.

happens to me nearly every time i get caught up answering questions there for no good reason except to avoid doing anything productive.

;-)

Answer 3

Yes it's a legal question.

Let me try to take a stab at this...!!! The percent is your best answers as opposed to the number of answers you answered..

You have

Total answers  529

Best answers 37

To get the percentage you would divide your "Best Answers" by the number of "Total Answers" so:

37 divided by 529 = 0.069 or 6.9 %

...To change the decimal to a percent you simply move the decimal point in the answer to the right 2 spaces  to get the 6.9%

Since your percent is 6.9 then it gets rounded off to 7% on a page where you answer a question at because Yahoo just rounds your percentage up or down (which ever is nearest).

On your profile page Yahoo does NOT round off your percentage so it may show 1% less (I think) until you actually get to the next percentage.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

What they said..