I just thought of a faster, more accurate way to assess the frequency trends of various posters. And its counting the whole poulation of posts, not just taking a sample.
For the last 30 days: posts / % of all Judy 675 / 15.4 Sparaig 593 / 13.5 Shemp 331 / 7.6 Turq 168 / 3.8 Total / 40.3% Given that its only a partial month for turq, and not all AMTers are in the above figures, AMTers may well be over 50% of posts (for last 30 days). --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wmurphy77 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > Its Official: FFL is Now AMT > > > > > > Of the past 100 posts, 78% were made by former/current heavy AMTers. > > > > > > Leaders: % of total posts > > > > > > Spraig 24 > > > Shemp 20 > > > Unc 16 > > > Judy 14 > > > > > > > Hey...don't forget me, I'm an old AMT'er too! :-) BillyG. > > > > You were in the sample* totals of 78% AMTers. But your personal totals > were so dismal :), they didn't warrant individual citing. > > Your 1-2% of posts are hardly enough to drive long-time FFL's / > non-ATMers away -- a trend observed over the last 6 months from the, > IMO, increasing courser, meandering, toxic and wrath-ladden exchanges > characterstic of some of the material from the tough-street fighting, > ATM-school of posters. > > > *100 is a fairly efficient sample size for capturing trends in a > group with 3000-4000 posts per months. Particularly if the sample is > taken weekly or so. Which I will try to do. It is random sample with > regards to choosing a time 'randomly" and tabulating the next 100 > posters from there. Not as random and powerful as a fully random > sample of 100, "drawn from a hat" out of the past 4000 posts or so. > But it is far easier to do. And thus can be done more frequently. > > 4-5 "block random samples" / month of 100 posts should give as good, > perhaps better estimates of the frequency per person / group of the > population of posts than one totally random sample of 100. (I would do > the math to show that, but that would be anal, and not of substantial > interest on this forum.) > > Speaking of anal, it takes less than a total of a minute or two to jot > down the whole sample, once a starting time is choosen. Not a huge > commitment. not, as some have characterized, taking excessive time, > and thus, by implication is anal. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
