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Why did you do it?

Its not done yet, but after I entered a few contests, I became interested in analyzing the voting patterns. Basically, I wasn't getting the number of votes that my ego said I should so I wanted to determine what advantage early entrants in the contest received. I believe that the null hypothesis ("There is no advantage to early posting") has been refuted and that a somewhat weak positive correlation exists between the number of votes a photograph receives and how early in the contest it was posted. Eventually, I dropped that analysis (because (a) it was a little mean-spirited and (b) - well, there is no (b)) but realized that I could look at the data in a different way; a way that serves the greater good. And so the Farktography Statistics Manager was born.

Posted at 10:57AM Apr 23, 2007 by schnee in Why  |