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Microsoft Forms: Ranking question type calculation methodology
What methodology is used in determining the results of a Ranking question type? I believe I have ruled out Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) but would like to know for sure the methodology. Thanks! ~Kimbe...
Kimberly_Huffman i dont know the official name, but i like to think of it as points. Eg you have 5 items to rank. And 3 people do the ranking:
A, B, C, D, E
A, C, D, E, B
C, A, B, D, E
Position 1 gets 5 points, position 5 gets 1 point. So add it up
A=14 points
B = 8
C = 12
D = 7
E = 4
So the ordering in the results page should show A as the winner, C as 2nd place, etc etc
While we order by total points, the bars are colored appropriately so you can see the breakdown within that score
Hope this makes sense!
Kimberly_Huffman i dont know the official name, but i like to think of it as points. Eg you have 5 items to rank. And 3 people do the ranking:
A, B, C, D, E
A, C, D, E, B
C, A, B, D, E
Position 1 gets 5 points, position 5 gets 1 point. So add it up
A=14 points
B = 8
C = 12
D = 7
E = 4
So the ordering in the results page should show A as the winner, C as 2nd place, etc etc
While we order by total points, the bars are colored appropriately so you can see the breakdown within that score
Hope this makes sense!
Jon_Kay Kimberly_Huffman
I know this is old, but I'm sharing for the Interwebs searches in the future.
My ideal way of ranking needs to include the ability to NOT rank items you're not familiar with. (For example, ranking movies, you'd skip the movies you never saw, but you don't want that to affect your final score.)
To address this, you'd need a ranking system that allows a N/A option.
Then, voters rank.
Then, you convert each voters' rankings into a win-loss set of "games".
For example, if someone ranks items ABCD as 1) A, 2) D, 3) C (with B not ranked), you'd list out the "games" as A beats D, A beats C, D beats C, with no "games" for B whatsoever.
Finally, you can use a sports-ranking method to take those games and produce a set of rankings. I like the Colley Matrix, but there are others out there.
Like I said, it's far more complicated, but it would allow you to properly rank items that have less general experience. I'll probably try to code this at some point in the future.
