Not true! When the numbers can change during the day, I always state that the kats are well aware that the numbers will change throughout the day. This time there could not possibly have been enough posts during the day to change the outcome by more than a tenth. I got rounded to 14.5, I would have accepted from 14.4 to 14.6. There is just no way that our winner today, who answered in one hour, did not deserve to win. I am usually around to check and recalculate math each time an answer is given but in this case there would have had to been thousands of posts in one hour to very the results by more than a tenth of a point.
If you click on forums and scroll to the bottom of the page you will find the thread and post totals for all time. Grab your calculator and divide threads by posts. Not long ago we had a guiz on hot threads where the answer was 15.0. So, we can conclude from this that the average thread is not a hot thread!
I was just picking, I do think they deserved to win! Anyone who figured that out is definatly smarter than a 5th grader!
You will find the same discrepancy with the Members List. If you go to Members List you will find a different number than what is at the bottom of the Cat Forums page and Jcat told me once why this was and that it was hoped that nobody noticed this. It had something to do with a bunch of names being discarded from the list but that did not carry through to the statistics. Unbelievably, this has been a KatKwiz question before (why the difference) and if I cannot get ahold of Tricia today, I will find that KatKwiz. I have since forgot the reason and will contact her to get her to explain that again. However, I have checked your math and because of my ambigous words of saying it would take a while, I am retroactively declaring you a shared winner and sending you the appropriate points.
Thanks, Tricia. I did find the original question and this confirms it.
