Poll: The typical or average size of the jobs I do is: Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "The typical or average size of the jobs I do is:".
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| | | neilmac Spain Local time: 17:25 Spanish to English + ... Option missing | Sep 14, 2023 |
What about "N/A" (Not Applicable)? All I could say is that my jobs tend to be no longer than 10,000 words, and are frequently 500 words or less. As for average, well, shmaverage. I'm no mathematician. | | | There is no average | Sep 14, 2023 |
Over 60 years of translating, I have seen all sizes. | | |
There’s nothing typical about the jobs I do, it can go from 3/4 words (the minimum I did) to over 250,000 words (the maximum I did)… | |
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Dan Lucas United Kingdom Local time: 16:25 Member (2014) Japanese to English Ways and means | Sep 14, 2023 |
The median is probably a more representative number, as at certain times of the year I get many smaller jobs. Since the start of 2022 that has been around 2,400 characters for me. The average (mean) has been 3,400 characters over the same period, due to skewing effect of small numbers of larger jobs. Regards, Dan | | |
My average per job depends to some extent on what I consider a "job" to be. In the past it was any number of files that I was expected to deliver together. Now I tend to make each "job" what I do in a month for each contact or client, so the numbers have tended to rise. My average words per job for each year vary from 1873 to 3595 but the above needs to be borne in mind: 2006 = 2211 2007 = 2121 2008 = 2022 2009 = 3140 2010 = 3134 2011 = 2954 2012... See more My average per job depends to some extent on what I consider a "job" to be. In the past it was any number of files that I was expected to deliver together. Now I tend to make each "job" what I do in a month for each contact or client, so the numbers have tended to rise. My average words per job for each year vary from 1873 to 3595 but the above needs to be borne in mind: 2006 = 2211 2007 = 2121 2008 = 2022 2009 = 3140 2010 = 3134 2011 = 2954 2012 = 2631 2013 = 2202 2014 = 1873 2015 = 2336 2016 = 2316 2017 = 1916 2018 = 2735 2019 = 3482 2020 = 3535 2021 = 3137 2022 = 3567 2023 = 3595 I don't know if this is of any interest, but it does answer the question. My smallest job was just a few words, my largest about 140k. As Dan Lucas says, however, the median number would be more indicative but I'd need to create a new formula to work that one out, so I'll stick to the question and pretend I didn't see his comment EDIT: It wasn't difficult to write a formula, so I changed my mind. Here are my median lengths: YEAR AVERAGE MEDIAN 2006 = 2211 - 763 2007 = 2121 - 625 2008 = 2022 - 770 2009 = 3140 - 812 2010 = 3134 - 1209 2011 = 2954 - 782 2012 = 2631 - 1018 2013 = 2202 - 929 2014 = 1873 - 655 2015 = 2336 - 756 2016 = 2316 - 941 2017 = 1916 - 695 2018 = 2735 - 1049 2019 = 3482 - 1469 2020 = 3535 - 1970 2021 = 3137 - 1779 2022 = 3567 - 1931 2023 = 3595 - 1605
[Edited at 2023-09-15 07:46 GMT] ▲ Collapse | | | Use of language | Sep 15, 2023 |
As other posters have implied, this question is unanswerable, because "typical" and "average" mean two quite different things. For example, consider this sequence (imagine all numbers represent thousands): 1, 2, 1, 2, 24, 6, 2, 2 Here, the typical size (i.e. the most common) is 2, but the average is 5. Quite different. So which is the poll asking about? The typical job size, or the average? It would be nice for us (and better for the reputation of ProZ) if ... See more As other posters have implied, this question is unanswerable, because "typical" and "average" mean two quite different things. For example, consider this sequence (imagine all numbers represent thousands): 1, 2, 1, 2, 24, 6, 2, 2 Here, the typical size (i.e. the most common) is 2, but the average is 5. Quite different. So which is the poll asking about? The typical job size, or the average? It would be nice for us (and better for the reputation of ProZ) if the poll questions were free of such solecisms. ▲ Collapse | | | number crunching | Sep 15, 2023 |
Dan Lucas wrote: The median is probably a more representative number, as at certain times of the year I get many smaller jobs. Since the start of 2022 that has been around 2,400 characters for me. The average (mean) has been 3,400 characters over the same period, due to skewing effect of small numbers of larger jobs. Regards, Dan I just crunched the numbers, for my own interest: The median is just 300 words (I did a lot of small jobs in the early days). That means that half of the jobs are below 300 words. The arithmetric average is 1100 words. But half of my income comes from jobs that are larger than 3000 words.
[Edited at 2023-09-15 04:54 GMT]
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