Is there a way to find out who has the highest "best answers" percentage - not ranking (which is based on your number of best answers)?
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The problem with this percentage is there are probably a couple people who have only answered one question and happened to have the best answer on that one question. So they will have 100%.
What you really want is some kind of index where it's a percentage times the number of total answers you have tried.
I hope this helps.
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- Click on the Top Members "See All" button.
- Move the Sort By drop down to "Best Answers"
- Click on the name of the first character (currently jeffhoard).The right-most graph at the top gives you his percentage of "Best Answer" (currently 46%).
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Yea I did it wrong. I meant percentage times total best answers. So lets say your 5 of 10. That gives you and index of 2.5 as opposed to the 1 of 1 only gets a index of 1. And somebody with the same percentage say 50 of 100 gets and index of 25. I also agree that this stat does tell you something about the answer. There are some people that answer TONS of questions and never get a single best answer.
I disagree drmatt. I think this gets to the question of "effectiveness."
One person may only answer questions on which they have some expertise, and therefore most of their answers end up being best answers. In that case, if you see them answer a question, you can be pretty sure their answer contains useful information. On the other hand, another person may answer everything, and end up with a lot of best answers in absolute terms, but most answers you see by them might not be that useful.
The issue is with *very* small numbers. I think I had a 100% best answer rating for my first two answers. That's not really a trend.
So I think it might be useful to rank people based on percentage of best answers, but only, say for green belt and up.
Should point out that percentage of best answers times number of answers will give you...the number of best answers.
Maybe better to rank percentage of best answers for people with at least belt rank "X". Or rank it for people who have answered at least N questions, where N is 20 or 25 or 50, or some other appropriate number.
Now that I see what the question is... I think this is an irrelevant/useless statistic. It doesn't really tell you anything IMHO.