I thought the same thing when I saw it. Now I know that this is not exactly
correct, but how about changing it to %complete or some such? Those who know
will know, and those who don't won't be discouraged.
Dan Oetting wrote:
> At 8:28 -0700 1/19/2000, Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 08:38:31PM +1000, Mikhail N. Volkov wrote:
> >
> >> Why not putting on stats page something like "Points found: NNNNN ,
> >> probability of success: XX%" ?
> >> So everybody can see< how much work left to be done.
> >
> >Ok, it is displayed now in the "Summary" page.
> >I hope that I took the good formula to compute this value... :-)
>
> It sounds like there is now a 90% probability of failure! This should be
> labeled something like "Initial probability of success at this point".
> Another usefull number to display would be "Probability of success in the
> next 24 hours" and possibly "Number of days to reach 50% from here"
>
> PS: How do you explain mean, median and mode to the average Joe? 8^)
>
> -- Dan Oetting <oetting@ghtmail.cr.usgs.gov>
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