@Cordelia from EDDA from my personal interpretation of it ( which i'm sure is entirely different from the Chill Subs' team's reasoning ), it has more to do with the acceptance / rejection rate they track. for smaller samples, if say only 1 submission was tracked and rejected, it would show up as a 0 percent acceptance rate, and that can be very discouraging for submitters and possibly a hindrance to smaller mags i know for last leaves, it also skewed ( when we could see ours ) ours to have a 50 percent acceptance rate, whereas when we calculated it out for the submissions we actually had, it was 30 percent. so i interpreted more based on that as opposed to the response times