{"id":354,"date":"2026-01-29T01:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2026-01-29T01:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:18:49","slug":"2025-pass-rates-per-class-by-region-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/2025-pass-rates-per-class-by-region-who-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 – Pass Rates per Class By Region – Who knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the WeSmellBetter Facebook Group, Bill Gaskins said, “It would be interesting to look for a quantitative correlation to see success rates by region. Does Texas do better than NJ and so on…”\u00a0 \u00a0This posts begins that analysis, looking at Q rates by class for each of the five AKC Scent Work Regions.\u00a0 I only pulled the 2025 data because I think the question is “where are we now?” as opposed to “how has it gone since the beginning?”<\/p>\n

As a reminder, the AKC defines the Regions like this<\/p>\n

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Note that the AKC Scent Work Master National results in terms of starters and qualifying scores for Days 1 and 2 of the Championship are included in Midwest \/ Region 3 data (Ohio) for 2025.<\/p>\n

Looking at the Odor Division first, this graph shows the number of starters per class by Region<\/p>\n

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And the pass rates per class by Region:<\/p>\n

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And for the Handler Discrimination Division, the number of starters<\/p>\n

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And the pass rate per class by Region<\/p>\n

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There is definitely a bigger difference between Regions than I expected.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the WeSmellBetter Facebook Group, Bill Gaskins said, “It would be interesting to look for a quantitative correlation to see success rates by region. Does Texas do better than NJ and so on…”\u00a0 \u00a0This posts begins that analysis, looking at Q rates by class for each of the five AKC Scent Work Regions.\u00a0 I only …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"anons"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesmellbetter.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}