Create an average rating when combining scorecards
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Simon Bedford
When more than one person creates a scorecard for a candidate, it appears that the overall rating from each scorecard is simply added together to create a combined overall rating.
However in some cases you are not always guaranteed that the exact same number of people will have "rated" each candidate, so the overall rating is biased in favour of people who have simply received more scorecard ratings.
It would be great to have the option to have an average overall rating created when scorecards are combined.
Samiur Rahman
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David Joseph
We are running into this same issue. Really need the option for average scoring on the scorecards.
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Alex Cala
Bump. We are also running into issues where candidates have a seemingly higher score than others when in reality they just have more ratings. For the current system to work, everyone has to rate everyone. Averaging the scores seems extremely obvious, would love to see this updated.
Jessica
Hi Alex Cala and David Joseph.
If you used the average then someone who has a single vote of 2 would be valued as one who has 10 votes as 2.
That doesn't seem like an ideal weighting either.
Thoughts? Just opening up the discussion here.
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David Joseph
Jessica: Yes, but that's exactly what we're looking for. We don't have the same number of people looking through each individual candidate, so we're encountering issues where some candidates are being unfairly weighted in favor of others. An average score option would really solve the problems we're having since right now there's people scored 3 or 4 that are on the same level as those scored 1 or 2.
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Alex Cala
Jessica: That's a great point as well.
Perhaps an icon to show how many people voted would be helpful in a system that averages? Or allowing the sort function to rank a "2" with 10 votes above a "2" with 8 votes, etc. etc.
The issue with the scores adding up is that you can't quickly glance at a score and tell how they stack up relatively. e.g. if there are two candidates with a '4'. I would personally rank the candidate that got 2+2 over the candidate who got a 1+1+1+1. I understand there is a level of subjectivity, but that's my take.