Hello,
I decided to spend some time on some very important, deep level data analysis on the posters here on the off topic forum. My goal was to find the average number of responses one gets for every thread they create. I believe this portrays an interest level on part of the responders, (no responses, little interest - simple enough) as well as discussion potential regarding the context of the topic of the thread.
My methodology was as follows:
- Scan the last 6 pages of off topic. (Not going to do this forever) - This puts us right at september 3rd, so we have a month of data to work on.
- I ignored thread starters that had under 4 thread starts. Most of the times there simply was not enough data. One person starting one thread and getting 70 responses really skews their average. Need multiple data points.
Here is the raw data:
The above is obviously ranked by the average number of responses per thread.
Thoughts:
String cleans up very nicely in second place, with a decent average. No doubt helped by my back and forth with him earlier this month.
I have no idea who unk is but he was rocking it earlier this month with a very good return on post investment.
Tom shockingly is near the bottom with his average response index. ouch.
how about some More Data???
Naturally, we see the cream rising to the top. The closer to the y axis, the more normal you are, and the higher you are on the y axis, the more interesting you are. In this analysis, we can see that the interesting level of watermark, unk, and yurt are roughly equal. String pulls slightly ahead of that group but is obviously blown out of the water by me.
Tom sadly, is a major, major outlier in this data. Even legion troll is at least in orbit. For tom to improve his normalcy rating, he should probably either post less, or, post MORE interesting stuff, to generate a higher interesting index.
Lastly, another visualization:
In conclusion, I am unsurprisingly the most interesting submitter on off topic. Tom is the most abnormal and boring, if you look at the bar graph, his data is almost the exact opposite of mine. He's basically bizarro me. A long time hypothesis in the intellectual community, this has now been actually proven by science. Thank you.
I decided to spend some time on some very important, deep level data analysis on the posters here on the off topic forum. My goal was to find the average number of responses one gets for every thread they create. I believe this portrays an interest level on part of the responders, (no responses, little interest - simple enough) as well as discussion potential regarding the context of the topic of the thread.
My methodology was as follows:
- Scan the last 6 pages of off topic. (Not going to do this forever) - This puts us right at september 3rd, so we have a month of data to work on.
- I ignored thread starters that had under 4 thread starts. Most of the times there simply was not enough data. One person starting one thread and getting 70 responses really skews their average. Need multiple data points.
Here is the raw data:
The above is obviously ranked by the average number of responses per thread.
Thoughts:
String cleans up very nicely in second place, with a decent average. No doubt helped by my back and forth with him earlier this month.
I have no idea who unk is but he was rocking it earlier this month with a very good return on post investment.
Tom shockingly is near the bottom with his average response index. ouch.
how about some More Data???
Naturally, we see the cream rising to the top. The closer to the y axis, the more normal you are, and the higher you are on the y axis, the more interesting you are. In this analysis, we can see that the interesting level of watermark, unk, and yurt are roughly equal. String pulls slightly ahead of that group but is obviously blown out of the water by me.
Tom sadly, is a major, major outlier in this data. Even legion troll is at least in orbit. For tom to improve his normalcy rating, he should probably either post less, or, post MORE interesting stuff, to generate a higher interesting index.
Lastly, another visualization:
In conclusion, I am unsurprisingly the most interesting submitter on off topic. Tom is the most abnormal and boring, if you look at the bar graph, his data is almost the exact opposite of mine. He's basically bizarro me. A long time hypothesis in the intellectual community, this has now been actually proven by science. Thank you.
