That is a very good observation. I go through severe anxiety now that I have my profile in pool. I sometimes feel it gets out of control & I get into this data mining mode. I need to find a way to calm my nerves a bit ;-)
That makes sense. I am the same way. I've only been in the pool 2 months now. And I now that very few get picked right away. But even then, every draw that I'm not picked in feels in my chest. Especially because I live in Alberta right now, and really don't want to leave in 8 months. I probably do the same data mining. Searching the forum for NOCs, trying to figure out who gets picked, and so on. Which is also when I realized how little data we base things on. Yet some people here are super certain in their case. Some saying that if you are in a high volume application field, then you won't get picked. No question about it. Which is impossible for them to know, unless they somehow have the unpublished data of who got picket, and what their NOC is. We simply don't know much about how the system works. Who gets picked, and why. Because we only know a few people, out of hundreds of people. So worrying based on that, doesn't help much