# Gauss scoring, missing value "1" is higher then real value

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gauss-scoring-missing-value-1-is-higher-then-real-value/64354>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 29, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gauss-scoring-missing-value-1-is-higher-then-real-value/64354 "2016-10-29T19:45:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![teebu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/teebu/32/10119_2.png) [@teebu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teebu)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gauss-scoring-missing-value-1-is-higher-then-real-value/64354/1 "2016-10-29T19:45:23Z")

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I'm using Gauss scoring, but it returns 1 if a field is missing.

The missing field ends up being scored higher then the real fields. The real fields results are between 0 and 1.

I'd like to be able to set "missing: 0.01".

This doesn't make sense to me.

```auto
{
               "gauss": {
                  "last_updated": {
                     "origin": "now",
                     "scale": "90d",
                     "decay": 0.9
                  }
               },
               "weight": 10
},

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gauss-scoring-missing-value-1-is-higher-then-real-value/64354/2 "2017-07-05T22:08:35Z")

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