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> This chart looks perfectly normal since the green line is smooth and the blue line is relatively stable. The first chart goes to over 1,000 votes. The other
by danmaz74 12y ago
> This chart looks perfectly normal since the green line is smooth and the blue line is relatively stable.
The first chart goes to over 1,000 votes. The other ones stay one or two orders of magnitude lower. Cheating or not, it's absolutely normal that a stochastic phenomenon looks smooth when there are many events, and not smooth when there are few of them.
- MrDosu 12y agoExactly this... This comparison is statistically on very shaky ground at best. Sidenote: HN page rank is not solely based on upvotes (for example the recurring recruitment thread). So analyzing it like it was will not provide reasonable results.