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If anyone's interested, this is the breakdown of the leading digits of the number of comments for these threads: {'1': 0.6896551724137931, '2': 0.137931034482
by cjohnson318 7y ago
If anyone's interested, this is the breakdown of the leading digits of the number of comments for these threads:
{'1': 0.6896551724137931,
'2': 0.13793103448275862,
'3': 0.06896551724137931,
'4': 0.06896551724137931,
'5': 0.0,
'6': 0.0,
'7': 0.0,
'8': 0.034482758620689655,
'9': 0.0}
It's not exactly Benford's distribution. It doesn't span more than two orders of magnitude, but it's somewhat Benfordian, and it is what you might expect from a distribution of comments.
- lonelappde 7y agoNow do lengths of comments. Also, please don't report 16 digits when your data set only has 1 sigfig.
- tantalor 7y agoASCII bar chart or get out.
- dredmorbius 7y agoi: 10 min: 0.000000 max: 0.689655 range: 0.689655 width: 70 scale: 101.500000 1 0.69 ********************************************************************** 2 0.14 ************** 3 0.07 ******* 4 0.07 ******* 5 0.00 6 0.00 7 0.00 8 0.03 *** 9 0.00
- hnuser123456 7y agoSome threads have hundreds of comments, so 3 sig figs. The single digits are just categories/labels, not data.
- cjohnson318 7y agoYou're right, the insignificant digits were misleading.
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