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Just out of idle curiosity I thought I'd check how many of my answers had been accepted. The only way I could see was to manually count.
Would people be interested in seeing this as a statistic on the profile page?
BTW - mine's about 11% (28 ish / 264) - it's ish because I gave up counting and didn't want to count my answers to my questions that I'd accepted.
NOTE: This is not the same as the current now removed "Accept Rate" - i.e. how many questions have accepted answers.
For what it's worth, here's some top answerer data from the last dump:
Jon Skeet 4787 1945 0.406 Marc Gravell 3681 1330 0.361 tvanfosson 2778 709 0.255 Joel Coehoorn 2425 400 0.165 JaredPar 2086 564 0.270 John Saunders 1977 317 0.160 S.Lott 1900 364 0.192 Pax 1584 332 0.210 Neil Butterworth 1469 238 0.162 Mehrdad 1464 478 0.327 VonC 1427 417 0.292 Bill the Lizard 1418 184 0.130 Greg Hewgill 1401 329 0.235 Andrew Hare 1355 321 0.237 Alex Martelli 1345 382 0.284 Mitch Wheat 1336 283 0.212 cletus 1334 378 0.283 Jonathan Leffler 1186 191 0.161 litb 1135 371 0.327 duffymo 1134 114 0.101 Charlie Martin 1122 187 0.167 Gumbo 1075 301 0.280 le dorfier 1071 83 0.077 Tomalak 1069 377 0.353 Quassnoi 1068 353 0.331 Konrad Rudolph 1062 227 0.214 CMS 1043 272 0.261 Steven A. Lowe 1027 101 0.098 dirkgently 990 170 0.172 chaos 953 194 0.204 Uri 936 76 0.081 Paolo Bergantino 924 493 0.534 Vinko Vrsalovic 908 217 0.239 Reed Copsey 908 263 0.290 Greg 907 293 0.323 Mitchel Sellers 883 147 0.166 AnthonyWJones 883 219 0.248 FlySwat 881 117 0.133 Bill Karwin 878 307 0.350 JP 876 135 0.154 Adam Rosenfield 875 216 0.247 nickf 853 141 0.165 marc_s 851 199 0.234 1800 INFORMATION 846 151 0.178 Tom Hawtin - tackline 845 153 0.181 Paul Tomblin 843 119 0.141 Lasse V. Karlsen 836 163 0.195 annakata 831 114 0.137 Aaron Digulla 823 127 0.154 bobince 810 225 0.278 Gamecat 793 82 0.103 Michael Burr 791 175 0.221 leppie 786 115 0.146 Norman Ramsey 782 91 0.116 Will 779 136 0.175 Robert Harvey 771 132 0.171 Ólafur Waage 771 95 0.123 Cade Roux 770 122 0.158 kgiannakakis 764 140 0.183 Adam Davis 759 144 0.190 HLGEM 755 49 0.065 unwind 743 135 0.182 Guffa 735 178 0.242 Jason Baker 733 40 0.055 Brian Agnew 733 143 0.195 James Curran 726 77 0.106 Henk Holterman 723 123 0.170 Brian R. Bondy 722 192 0.266 Josh 713 143 0.201 vartec 709 140 0.197 Earwicker 706 110 0.156 Michael Borgwardt 705 102 0.145 jalf 699 144 0.206 JB King 696 34 0.049 Robert Gould 694 38 0.055 ChrisW 693 91 0.131 Masi 683 14 0.020 ocdecio 680 91 0.134 gbn 675 152 0.225 Thomas Owens 674 27 0.040 PhiLho 664 70 0.105 ConcernedOfTunbridgeWells 661 117 0.177 Kibbee 658 58 0.088 Paul Dixon 637 181 0.284 Michael Stum 636 86 0.135 Gishu 621 91 0.147 MSalters 619 66 0.107 aku 616 109 0.177 erickson 613 195 0.318 Anton Gogolev 612 117 0.191 unknown 612 69 0.113 Kev 610 137 0.225 Daok 608 72 0.118 Fredrik Mörk 607 153 0.252 TheTXI 604 105 0.174 Matthew Flaschen 603 135 0.224 casperOne 603 172 0.285 Galwegian 602 85 0.141 David B 602 126 0.209 Noldorin 592 160 0.270
Here is top 100 for ordered by ratio (for people who answered more than 50 questions)
rq 68 40 0.588 Daniel LeCheminant 202 115 0.569 Ayman 162 92 0.568 molf 123 69 0.561 rmoore 107 58 0.542 Paolo Bergantino 924 493 0.534 José Basilio 360 180 0.500 Miles 99 49 0.495 Eric Rosenberger 58 28 0.483 Jason Coco 203 97 0.478 Justin Cave 114 54 0.474 Ben Gottlieb 226 107 0.473 Gdeglin 72 34 0.472 Steef 51 24 0.471 Martin Woodward 134 63 0.470 Ahmad Mageed 58 27 0.466 Moff 58 27 0.466 Alconja 70 32 0.457 jason 57 26 0.456 Jesse Rusak 77 35 0.455 Perspx 97 44 0.454 Nicholas Riley 84 38 0.452 Jim Dovey 71 32 0.451 Greg Campbell 59 26 0.441 Borgar 64 28 0.438 ChrisN 135 59 0.437 Alex James 85 37 0.435 mdb 92 40 0.435 Owen 209 91 0.435 Yehuda Katz 62 27 0.435 mercator 63 27 0.429 Robert Macnee 94 40 0.426 Reto Meier 54 23 0.426 Stuart Childs 99 42 0.424 Jarret Hardie 236 100 0.424 Joel Spolsky 64 27 0.422 Ron DeVera 60 25 0.417 ShreevatsaR 101 42 0.416 Magnar 56 23 0.411 Vlad Romascanu 192 79 0.411 Godeke 110 45 0.409 Jon Skeet 4787 1945 0.406 insin 121 49 0.405 mghie 262 106 0.405 smorgan 89 36 0.404 Panos 114 46 0.404 ybo 77 31 0.403 hasseg 92 37 0.402 James Gregory 92 37 0.402 Craig Stuntz 538 216 0.401 Martin Harris 140 56 0.400 ChssPly76 120 48 0.400 Steven Lyons 63 25 0.397 msaeed 58 23 0.397 unknown 58 23 0.397 Christopher_G_Lewis 61 24 0.393 Matt Hamilton 547 215 0.393 Ted Naleid 64 25 0.391 Shog9 432 169 0.391 Stephen Martin 64 25 0.391 Josh G 90 35 0.389 Anton Tykhyy 57 22 0.386 Aziz 57 22 0.386 Ben M 68 26 0.382 Kent Boogaart 568 217 0.382 Sean Bright 202 77 0.381 nosklo 291 111 0.381 keparo 71 27 0.380 Steve Willcock 137 52 0.380 Denis Troller 143 54 0.378 Rob Conery 141 53 0.376 Branden Hall 72 27 0.375 itowlson 80 30 0.375 unknown 56 21 0.375 Carl Meyer 155 58 0.374 eu-ge-ne 220 82 0.373 Louis Gerbarg 227 84 0.370 Andrew Moore 187 69 0.369 Milan Novota 95 35 0.368 Jason 68 25 0.368 Scott Hanselman 68 25 0.368 Steve K 77 28 0.364 Rob Mensching 77 28 0.364 NeARAZ 58 21 0.362 Michael S. Scherotter 69 25 0.362 Rick Copeland 61 22 0.361 Marc Gravell 3681 1330 0.361 Simon Lieschke 75 27 0.360 htw 89 32 0.360 Ashley Clark 53 19 0.358 back2dos 137 49 0.358 maxnk 53 19 0.358 Michael 297 106 0.357 gcores 87 31 0.356 weppos 155 55 0.355 Pesto 217 77 0.355 hop 82 29 0.354 Ed Harper 79 28 0.354 Nadia 150 53 0.353 Pourquoi Litytestdata 51 18 0.353
Here is the query if you're curious:
select
uuser.id,
uuser.displayname,
count(post.id) as ans,
count(vote.id) as acc,
1.0*count(vote.id)/count(post.id) as pct
from uuser
join post on (uuser.id = post.owneruserid)
left join vote on (vote.postid = post.id)
and post.posttypeid = 2
and vote.votetypeid = 1
group by uuser.id, uuser.displayname
order by ans desc;
This is possible using the advanced search options.
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/search
try searching for
user:me isaccepted:1
I think this is a great stat. Also what would be good at a glance is a ratio of Questions to Answers--identify who's and asker and who's an answerer.
There should be a threshold, though. I think that if you don't have a "minimum answers" thing, you'll get a huge skew of folks who have only answered one question. Sort of like when the do all the awards at the end of an NHL season--there's always a minimum number of games played for best save percentage. Otherwise, some minor league goalie who was in for five shutout minutes would win every year.
You can look up slightly stale data on the data explorer. Accepted Answer Statistics (II) shows how many accepted answers you have. To see the most accepted users, look at Top users by accept answer rate.
That was actually one of the rankings I was suggesting here: New User Rankings
I think it would be an interesting metric, but it will almost always be skewed towards people with a lower answer count.
