Question about the % correct

Submitted by Junseong on November 15, 2024

Does it take one person who got an answer in their first try to make the % correct at least 1 %? (In other words, are all the 0 % correct answers ones that no one has gotten right in their first try?) If it indeed takes one person to make it 1 %, why does the answer "Some Gave All - Billy Ray Cyrus" remain 0 % correct after I took this quiz and only got that right in my first try (I got fifteen album covers I had never seen before and Some Gave All, so I could not guess anything else)?

5 Comments

Level 68

Nov 15, 2024

Because, if you are the only person to get that right on your first try, and the quiz has had more that 100 other people miss that on their first try, then you are not 1% of quiz players. Perhaps you are 0.3%, and thus it gets rounded down to 0

Level 73

Nov 16, 2024

When I took the quiz, it was probably the 163rd time it was taken. So, the % correct should be greater than 0.5 %, or 1/200. Does the problem lie in the fact that I gave up after only nine seconds?

Level 68

Nov 16, 2024

Honestly, I don't know. Stewart, QM, what say you on this?

Level 33

Nov 16, 2024

I think it's always rounded down. If you are at 0,1%, 0,5% or 0,9%, it will be written "0%". This is just an hypothesis, though.

Level 68

Nov 17, 2024

A few things:

1) Stats only update after your first take, future takes do not affect stats

2) Stats only update periodically after 100 takes, so not every take will recompute it

3) %s are rounded (not up or down, but true rounding), so if 1 person out of 201+ gets it right, then it'll go to 0.