# مشاكل التقريب في نتائج الاستبيان

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-issues-with-poll-results/93840>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [3 أغسطس 2018، 11:33ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-issues-with-poll-results/93840 "2018-08-03T11:33:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![WooHooGaming13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/woohoogaming13/32/109175_2.png) [@WooHooGaming13](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WooHooGaming13)\
**Post date:** [3 أغسطس 2018، 11:33ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-issues-with-poll-results/93840/1 "2018-08-03T11:33:37Z")

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So here I am (again) trying to find evidence that the polls are uneven. Please note that there are 3 people voting on the poll. Two are 33% and one is 34%. Here is the evidence.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/6/26a22727661277b5b8e0ead10ae5654f172d782e.jpg)

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**Author:** ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\
**Post date:** [3 أغسطس 2018، 11:40ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-issues-with-poll-results/93840/2 "2018-08-03T11:40:16Z")

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This was answered last time you asked the question. Do you have any further questions about this?

> [@Uneven voting poll?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uneven-voting-poll/90545/3):
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> I’m guessing the issue is an expectation that polls should be providing data where scale is “critically important”. For example, if I was working with money the difference between 33% and 32.6843% could be very important. What the polls feature should round to has been discussed here often. AFAIK, it is an intentional design decision that the results are somewhat “rough”, and that the current implementation is good enough for typical use in a forum. Because a forum is meant to be a place for d…

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**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
**Post date:** [3 أغسطس 2018، 11:48ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-issues-with-poll-results/93840/3 "2018-08-03T11:48:21Z")

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I think people would complain if they were all 33% … ‘where has the 1% gone?!’ … so I’m fine with the rounding the way it works.

Cute logo btw 🙂

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**Author:** ![Genyus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/genyus/32/119655_2.png) [@Genyus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Genyus)\
**Post date:** [3 أغسطس 2018، 12:14م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-issues-with-poll-results/93840/4 "2018-08-03T12:14:13Z")

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I’m guessing at the OP’s intent here, but I would imagine the concern is that while display rounding is arguably expected — in the example shown, one option is highlighted as winning, when it’s actually a three-way tie?

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**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
**Post date:** [3 أغسطس 2018، 1:20م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-issues-with-poll-results/93840/5 "2018-08-03T13:20:12Z")

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A poll based on 3 people is hardly something to draw many conclusions from though? What are the chances that after 33 responses you are tied 11/11/11? 😉

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**Author:** ![Genyus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/genyus/32/119655_2.png) [@Genyus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Genyus)\
**Post date:** [3 أغسطس 2018، 1:46م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-issues-with-poll-results/93840/6 "2018-08-03T13:46:25Z")

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Sure, I don’t think this is a significant issue, but I do understand how it could cause some confusion in specific circumstances.

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**Author:** ![WooHooGaming13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/woohoogaming13/32/109175_2.png) [@WooHooGaming13](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WooHooGaming13)\
**Post date:** [3 أغسطس 2018، 3:33م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-issues-with-poll-results/93840/7 "2018-08-03T15:33:18Z")

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As I said before we need decimal places to make things even.

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**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
**Post date:** [3 أغسطس 2018، 4:20م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-issues-with-poll-results/93840/8 "2018-08-03T16:20:00Z")

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> [@WooHooGaming13](#):
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> As I said before we need decimal places to make things even.

Where did the missing ‘0.000001%’ go?! 😉

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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [3 أغسطس 2018، 8:00م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-issues-with-poll-results/93840/9 "2018-08-03T20:00:47Z")

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> [@merefield](#):
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> Where did the missing ‘0.000001%’ go?!

Even with this “more correct” example there’s still a 1 lost in infinity. ∞

> option A 33.3̅%  
> option B 33.3̅%  
> option C 33.3̅%

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [4 أغسطس 2018، 1:44ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rounding-issues-with-poll-results/93840/10 "2018-08-04T01:44:08Z")

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