"Display top X results" or "display all results above score Y"

[Bisaloo]

This issue follows from a point @avinashladdha has raised.

There are two options to determine the cut-off for displaying or not results:

• Constant number of results. E.g., "always display the top 3 results". This ensures consistency in the output length but may result in output from different queries erroneously looking like the same level of relevance.
• Fixed threshold to display results. This means that queries where many tools are relevant may return many results. Also, some testing / tweaking would be necessary to identify a good threshold value (this can be a follow up issue if we choose this option).

[chartgerink]

From a usability perspective, the first option provides more consistency and clear expectations. Without any testing, this would have my preference (but my preferences are not the standard 😊).

We could try both and see what happens, as this is not costly to try out. Thanks for opening the issue to track this!

[Bisaloo]

This was discussed today with the WHO Collaboratory team at our monthly stand up and they overall preferred not having a fixed number of results, but instead all the results above a certain threshold.

They mentioned it may be frustrating to users & developers otherwise if they are looking for a specific tool that would indeed be relevant but not in the top 5 matches.