Another pie-chart conundrum

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I just posted an instance of the use of AMESBURY (Burnap) for "O Master Workman of the Race" (CW1941 #210), and when I checked the text authority I found the following odd discrepancy:

The Tune Info pie chart looks like this: AMESBURY a thick slice, BETHLEHEM (Fink) a medium slice, KINGSFOLD a thin slice. But when I click on "All tunes published with..." I get the information that each tune of the eight has exactly one instance (of course, Amesbury now really has two, but the second won't show up here till tomorrow). So why don't BETHLEHEM (Fink) and KINGSFOLD both show the same width of pie-slice, and specifically why isn't each exactly half as wide a slice as AMESBURY (since the new instance shows up in the pie instantaneously, without the day's delay the other screen involves)?? This is the kind of thing that populates my dream life.

Then there's the problem that the tune authority says AMESBURY is 8.6.8.6 but the PDF (and the instance I'm entering) are both clearly 8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6... That one I think I can fix.


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The pie chart displays up to three tunes (if there are at least that many), and lumps the rest under "Other." If you count the tunes in the instances, you find that there are 3 AMESBURY's, 2 BETHLEHEM's and 1 of four other tunes. When there are a bunch of tunes with an equal number of instances (in this case there are four tunes with 1 instance) which ones get stuffed into "Other" is not defined, so the selection in this third piece can change from one page view to the other.

Okay, but then the question is, why does the "All tunes published with" result show such erroneous numbers? Here's the current screensho, which shows 2 and five ones, not the 3, 2, four ones you say should be there.

In a similar vein, why the discrepancy between the three instances of LYNGHAM set to "O for a thousand tongues" that show on the tune authority page vs. the two that show up on the all-tunes-published page for "O for a thousand tongues"?

Screenshot 1: 3 LYNGHAMs

Screenshot 2: 2 LYNGHAMS