monkdiscuss xdg <p>I was re-reading [id://505418] and was inspired to do some further explorations from the [http://tinymicros.com/pm/index.php?goto=OverallStats|Overall Stats] to get a better sense of the distribution between various levels.</p> <p>In order to avoid skewing the results, I manually corrected for three outlier "monks":</p> <ul> <li>Pope [Vroom] with 1006991 XP from 606 writeups</li> <li>Initiate [Antivroom] with -1002951 XP from 2 writeups</li> <li>Friar [Nodereaper] with 1291 XP from 57005 "writeups" (!!)</li> </ul> <p>The table below shows of these some corrected stats, including distributions of posts and total XP for each level. (Yes, that's right, Archbishop [Merlyn] accounts for 1% of the total posts and XP for all of Perlmonks.) There's also an interesting pattern of average XP per post across the levels, with the peak coming in the middle-levels.</p> <p><b>Perlmonks Statistical Analysis -- 2005-12-03</b></p> <table border="1"> <tr><th>Title</th><th>Level</th><th>Population</th><th>Posts per Monk</th><th>XP per Post</th><th>% of Total Posts</th><th>% of Total XP</th></tr> <tr><td>Archbishop</td><td>23</td><td>1</td><td>5577</td><td>10.38</td><td>1%</td><td>1%</td></tr> <tr><td>Bishop</td><td>22</td><td>6</td><td>4289</td><td>10.74</td><td>6%</td><td>5%</td></tr> <tr><td>Chancellor</td><td>21</td><td>6</td><td>3395</td><td>10.22</td><td>5%</td><td>4%</td></tr> <tr><td>Canon</td><td>20</td><td>8</td><td>1941</td><td>12.69</td><td>3%</td><td>4%</td></tr> <tr><td>Abbot</td><td>19</td><td>11</td><td>1395</td><td>13.53</td><td>3%</td><td>4%</td></tr> <tr><td>Monsignor</td><td>18</td><td>18</td><td>1169</td><td>11.86</td><td>5%</td><td>5%</td></tr> <tr><td>Prior</td><td>17</td><td>29</td><td>679</td><td>15.59</td><td>4%</td><td>6%</td></tr> <tr><td>Parson</td><td>16</td><td>37</td><td>599</td><td>13.28</td><td>5%</td><td>6%</td></tr> <tr><td>Vicar</td><td>15</td><td>49</td><td>539</td><td>11.40</td><td>6%</td><td>6%</td></tr> <tr><td>Priest</td><td>14</td><td>92</td><td>334</td><td>14.04</td><td>7%</td><td>8%</td></tr> <tr><td>Curate</td><td>13</td><td>164</td><td>225</td><td>15.21</td><td>8%</td><td>11%</td></tr> <tr><td>Deacon</td><td>12</td><td>87</td><td>181</td><td>14.55</td><td>3%</td><td>4%</td></tr> <tr><td>Chaplain</td><td>11</td><td>158</td><td>142</td><td>14.31</td><td>5%</td><td>6%</td></tr> <tr><td>Hermit</td><td>10</td><td>189</td><td>113</td><td>13.53</td><td>5%</td><td>6%</td></tr> <tr><td>Friar</td><td>9</td><td>275</td><td>85</td><td>12.93</td><td>5%</td><td>6%</td></tr> <tr><td>Pilgrim</td><td>8</td><td>375</td><td>56</td><td>13.06</td><td>5%</td><td>5%</td></tr> <tr><td>Monk</td><td>7</td><td>322</td><td>44</td><td>11.32</td><td>3%</td><td>3%</td></tr> <tr><td>Scribe</td><td>6</td><td>523</td><td>27</td><td>11.57</td><td>3%</td><td>3%</td></tr> <tr><td>Beadle</td><td>5</td><td>508</td><td>19</td><td>10.45</td><td>2%</td><td>2%</td></tr> <tr><td>Sexton</td><td>4</td><td>580</td><td>12</td><td>9.57</td><td>2%</td><td>1%</td></tr> <tr><td>Acolyte</td><td>3</td><td>967</td><td>8</td><td>8.30</td><td>2%</td><td>1%</td></tr> <tr><td>Novice</td><td>2</td><td>1858</td><td>5</td><td>6.75</td><td>2%</td><td>1%</td></tr> <tr><td>Initiate</td><td>1</td><td>30823</td><td>1</td><td>1.04</td><td>10%</td><td>1%</td></tr> </table> <p>I've produced a couple graphics that illustrate some of the relationships.</p> <ul> <li>[http://www.dagolden.com/files/perlmonks/pm_distributions.jpg|Writeup and XP Histogram]</li> <li>[http://www.dagolden.com/files/perlmonks/pm_quality_vs_experience.jpg|XP vs Quality Scatterplot]</li> </ul> <p>I draw no conclusions from any of this -- I just like playing with statistics. Among other things, stats like "XP/Post" blend the XP from both writeups and voting, so I admit that referring to that as a "quality" metric is a bit of a misnomer.</p> <p><b>Update:</b> As [Limbic~Region] points out and I mention above, this is not based on per-post statistics. XP/Post is just the ratio of total XP to total number of writeups.</p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-268515"> <p>-xdg</p> <p><small><i>Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain">public domain</a>. It is provided <b>as is</b> with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.</i></small></p> </div></div>