Topic on Talk:Article feedback

This is possibly a problem with Wikipedia-en's implementation, but I am skeptical.

I was browsing the article on race conditions. Being a relatively active editor several years ago, I decided to fill out the survey with some 4's and 5's, since it was a very well-written article.

I wanted to learn more about the survey, which led me eventually to this dashboard, which put the race condition article in the 'Recent lows' category, saying its average ratings were 2.06, 1.88, 2.41, 2.44, and 2.20, respectively. I thought, "wow, even with my good ratings, people don't like that article?" So I went to view the averages on the actual article, and saw the following averages: 3.5, 3.5, 3.7, 2.2. This is all currently viewable.

There is something wrong here. JohnWittle (talk) 20:51, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

People base their ratings on the subject of the article and not on the article itself.

The two pages use different data sets. If memory serves, the article tells you the average of all ratings recorded during a variable time period (however long it took to have 30 edits to the page, which could be anything from 30 seconds to more than a year, depending on the level of activity at the article). The dashboard tells you the average of all ratings in the last 24 hours.