Suppose I get 100 rejections. How do I figure out how many approvals I need to regain my previous Approval Rating? Because I did get 104 rejections, and although I have completed more than 1000 approved HITs, my rating is still not what it was before. I had about six thousand approved, with a 99% approval; then the 104 rejections---all from same guy---and the 1000 I have done since then has only nudged it back up .2% This sucks. Does anybody know how to figure how many approvals it takes to regain previous rating?
You want the 104 rejections to be 1% of your sum of approved + rejected Hits. That means that you need 10400 approved + rejected Hits for the 104 rejected ones to be only 1% of that sum. So, if you now have 7000 approved Hits + 104 rejected Hits, you need 3296 more approved Hits to get back to 99%. (If you don't get more rejections in the meantime.) 7000 + 104 + 3296 = 10400. Was that easy to understand?
So, I did the algebra. Yes, I see that I have to do a horrifying, disgusting number of approved HITs. Thousands...........to make up for the 104. Thanks.