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What am I missing? The picture "Copy Events by Post Score"[0] on that page plots, for posts with various point scores, how many times they were copied. But for
by yesenadam 5y ago
What am I missing? The picture "Copy Events by Post Score"[0] on that page plots, for posts with various point scores, how many times they were copied. But for 0 - 100 on the x-axis, this is a virtually clean, thin, solid curve, as if all posts with 45 points, say, were copied exactly 13 times, all posts with 46 points, 14 times etc. I don't get why the data points are all on a single curve. That's odd, right?!
[0] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hkdnDDP4Vx0XOMt_VWX09qKURy2k6Mr6EK2eL1JIZm0HCCe0GDPJocagTcAK5jtl7AtQbIlf_f4wE_A2-JC73X6b1s1ULifQ-9GL2JpiL1k67W3VAjKhwqcDFtHqGkVLQk-L-Tpf https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hkdnDDP4Vx0XOMt_VWX09qKURy...
- ddulaney 5y agoThey don’t say, but presumably it’s an average at each X coordinate, and those scores have enough posts that the average converges nicely. As scores go up, each score doesn’t have as many posts and we don’t see the averages converging.
- austinjp 5y agoIt does look a bit odd, but not that odd. (Caveat: I'm on mobile and lazy so I've not read the post, just looked at the linked graph.) The plot "points" are blobs rather than actual points, so there's likely some grouping of data going on, e.g. 0-9 votes, 10-19 votes, etc, per blob. Then it just seems that low scores are more tightly correlated with low copying, and the correlation dissipates as the score increases. That doesn't seem too surprising, I guess?