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SQL Query Interpretation

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Problem

An engineer on Scale's labeling-ops team sends you this query and tells you it's what powers the "September completions per annotator" number on your weekly PM dashboard.

-- labeling_tasks: task_id, annotator_id, completed_at, status
-- task_reviews: review_id, task_id, reviewer_id, review_status

SELECT
    t.annotator_id,
    COUNT(t.task_id) AS tasks_completed,
    AVG(CASE WHEN r.review_status = 'approved' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS approval_rate
FROM labeling_tasks t
JOIN task_reviews r ON t.task_id = r.task_id
WHERE t.completed_at >= '2026-09-01'
GROUP BY t.annotator_id;

A task can go through more than one review. Before you repeat this number to a stakeholder, explain exactly what each row of this result represents, whether it actually matches "completions per annotator in September," and what you'd change.