csopenrankings: display mean instead of sum
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Description
My first gut reaction to the "total" column was that there's no way it made any sense because it seemed very biased towards well-rounded universities (universities that are very competitive across all categories). Then I realized that the sum was equivalent to taking the mean across the 4 categories, so it does make sense.
Perhaps using the mean (rounded to 3 SF or 1 DP) would make more intuitive sense? That also allows users to understand something by looking at only a single university, e.g. "Brown's average rank is 30.3" makes sense by itself, whereas I don't think "Brown's total rank is 121" does.
If you decide to do this, it may make sense to revisit #192. You could write "Average" with a tooltip explaining that you use the geometric mean
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Research direction
Start by locating the csopenrankings ranking display and reviewing issue #192, since no file or test is named. Confirm whether the intended change is the mean, its rounding, and a tooltip before editing; done means the chosen value is displayed consistently and the related ranking behavior is checked.
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- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
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- Stale
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- 35/100