My point was that if someone withdraws their application because you were taking so long to get back to them, and you count that as the date you gave them your decision, you’re artificially lowering the average time-till-decision metric.
Actually the reason I asked if you’d factored in withdrawn application not how was to make sure my criticism was relevant before bringing it up—but that probably made the criticism less clear
Hmm so I currently think the default should be that withdrawals without a decision aren’t included in the time-till-_decision_ metric, as otherwise you’re reporting a time-till-closure metric. (I weakly think that if the withdrawal is due to the decision taking too long and that time is above the average (as an attempt to exclude cases where the applicant is just unusually impatient), then it should be encorporated in some capacity, though this has obvious issues.)
My point was that if someone withdraws their application because you were taking so long to get back to them, and you count that as the date you gave them your decision, you’re artificially lowering the average time-till-decision metric.
Actually the reason I asked if you’d factored in withdrawn application not how was to make sure my criticism was relevant before bringing it up—but that probably made the criticism less clear
What would you consider the non-artificial “average time-till-decision metric” in this case?
Hmm so I currently think the default should be that withdrawals without a decision aren’t included in the time-till-_decision_ metric, as otherwise you’re reporting a time-till-closure metric. (I weakly think that if the withdrawal is due to the decision taking too long and that time is above the average (as an attempt to exclude cases where the applicant is just unusually impatient), then it should be encorporated in some capacity, though this has obvious issues.)