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Formula used to calculate Average Rank column on Ranked Choice questions

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2:37
March 8, 2008


Tom Metro

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Can you document the formula you use to calculate Average Rank column on Ranked Choice questions?

-Tom

11:17
March 14, 2008


Christian Vanek

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Hi Tom,

It’s pretty simple.

avg rank = ((count of rank 1 * 1) + (count of rank 2 * 2) + (count of rank 3 * 3) … )/ total count across all ranks.

It’s an average of all the votes for each rank by item.

-Christian
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