From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Skiffy Book Club Top 50
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 00:25:19 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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From: <ronkean at juno.com>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:48 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Skiffy Book Club Top 50

>
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:05:47 -0500 "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> writes:
> >
>
> > Starting with #11, the list is alphabetical by title.
> >
> > --Ted White
> >
>
> That is an astute observation.  What are the chances that the actual
> sales rank would precisely correspond with an alphabetical ordering by
> title, for 40 titles in a row?  Vanishingly small, I would think.  But
> there may be an explanation other than that the information is bogus.
> Perhaps the ranking was done by grouping books in sales ranges, and then
> the software which reported the results, by default alphabetized the
> titles within each range.  For example, sales of zero to 10,000 might
> have been the lowest range, 10,001 to 20,000 the next range, and so on.

My assumption is that the first ten were ranked and the next 40 were not,
essentially all tied for #11.

--Ted White