On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 1:05 PM, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > > Indicating that my fears that Nick's threats of censorship would > discourage posting were fully justified. There's a lot I'd LIKE to say in response, but I'll just let the cold, hard facts -- the numbers -- tell the story. The average number of posts per week in the six weeks preceding my posting was 86. The average in the six weeks following? It was 255! If there is causality at work (not just correlation), then we could say that my posting increased activity by 194 percent. Increased. As Jon Lovitz said in "A League of Their Own," this would be more. During the weeks following my post, we had abnormally high activity -- more than two standard deviations from the mean. One of those weeks, we were at more than five standard deviations above the mean. Even during the last two weeks, which have been lower than the previous six, we were still less than one standard deviation below the mean, which means that the activity level since my post has only been unusually high, not at any time unusually low. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
