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| author | Mark Longair <mhl@pobox.com> | 2013-08-20 10:47:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Mark Longair <mhl@pobox.com> | 2013-08-20 12:11:45 +0100 |
| commit | 2e30db88c6d6576e32c2329f7ff75fca7cca8ed9 (patch) | |
| tree | daf4eb993b470a048c8ba2b02fe87ef7b6ac1225 | |
| parent | 860cd9ec9935220852ae17498c8b9b7357a2cc3a (diff) | |
Add some caveats to the experimental statistics page
The statistics we're publishing are potentially subject to
misinterpretation, so add some warnings about their experimental
nature. Also, add a note crediting Mark Goodge for his useful
work on statistics for WhatDoTheyKnow.
| -rw-r--r-- | app/views/public_body/statistics.html.erb | 38 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/app/views/public_body/statistics.html.erb b/app/views/public_body/statistics.html.erb index fc0007d97..840af0c10 100644 --- a/app/views/public_body/statistics.html.erb +++ b/app/views/public_body/statistics.html.erb @@ -2,6 +2,44 @@ <div id="main_content"> <h1>Public Body Statistics</h1> + <p><%= _("This page of public body statistics is currently \ +experimental, so there are some caveats that should be borne \ +in mind:") %></p> + + <ul> + + <li><%= _("The percentages are calculated with respect to \ +the total number of requests, which includes invalid \ +requests; this is a known problem that will be fixed in a \ +later release.") %></li> + + <li><%= _("The classification of requests (e.g. to say \ +whether they were successful or not) is done manually by users \ +and administrators of the site, which means that they are \ +subject to error.") %></li> + + <li><%= _("Requests are considered successful if they were \ +classified as either 'Successful' or 'Partially Successful'.") %></li> + + <li><%= _("Requests are considered overdue if they are in \ +the 'Overdue' or 'Very Overdue' states.") %></li> + + <li><%= _("The error bars shown are 95% confidence intervals \ +for the hypothesized underlying proportion (i.e. that which \ +you would obtain by making an infinite number of requests \ +through this site to that authority). In other words, the \ +population being sampled is all the current and future \ +requests to the authority through this site, rather than, \ +say, all requests that have been made to the public body by \ +any means.") %></li> + + </ul> + + <p><%= _("These graphs were partly inspired by \ +<a href=\"http://mark.goodge.co.uk/2011/08/number-crunching-whatdotheyknow/\">some \ +statistics that Mark Goodge produced for WhatDoTheyKnow</a>, so thanks \ +are due to him.") %></p> + <% @graph_list.each do |graph_data| %> <h3 class="public-body-ranking-title"><%= graph_data['title']%></h3> <div class="public-body-ranking" id="<%= graph_data['id'] %>"> |