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All information is defined. (Both the measurements and the ranking of those measurements). Actually, I feel I have made that perfectly clear - the answer is both. I appreciate you trying to help but you're responses illuminate quite clearly the need to re-think statistical rankings. Again...

The ranking is the information. What the ranking is derived from is meaningless to the discussion. It could be 40-yard dash times or yards per carry for a running back, or minutes per foul in basketball - none of that matters. All that matters is that when a collection of measurements from the...

Thanks again for responding. Actually, Stephen, I have explained it but perhaps not well enough; or, perhaps your responses illuminate what I believe is a tragic problem within the statistics community which is that ranking is not seen as an end goal in and of itself, which it absolutely is...

Thank You very much for the response. The real life problem I'm trying to solve is how to accurately compare and contrast human performance where several measurements are taken, weighted, averaged then ranked to provide meaningful performance information between the ranks. E.g., if I were to...

Thank You to the Mod whom moved my thread - Sorry for the mis-post...Thanks again.

Is it possible I have stumbled upon an idea no one has ever considered before? I am beginning to think so as even Sal Kahn has no answer and has never considered the concept (and clearly the importance) of contriving a statistical ranking method which would actually provide performance relative...

Greetings All! I have what appears to be the most difficult question in the world based on the absence of even a single answer found on Google. I am looking for statistical ranking methods/rules/guidelines, etc. I work with data that is the result of taking continuous data (distance) and...