Hi all, I broke down karma of people who voted & didn't vote in the last election and got the following results (note: people who have a karma of less than 3 are active community members, who got negative karma for blogs. That can't happen any more. Without this, they would have had over 5 karma. So that group is to be taken with a pinch of salt. And I want to repeat that we have made a lot of changes to karma, and cross-correlating people who voted last time and calculating their karma now is a bit complicated, but I'm working on it):
Karma Abstained Voted Total Abstention rate <3 27 4 31 87.0967741935484 3 7857 495 8352 94.073275862069 4-9 2608 182 2790 93.4767025089606 10-24 528 79 607 86.9851729818781 25-99 217 81 298 72.8187919463087 >=100 63 71 134 47.0149253731343 Totals: 11300 912 12212 92.5319358008516 So: Of 912 votes, 495 had only 3 karma. 677 had less than 10. 231 had 10 or more karma, or less than 3. The average abstention rate was 92.5%. People who had karma between 3 and 9 were (as is to be expected) worse than the average, people with 10 or more were considerably better. And again as is to be expected, people with less than 3 karma were also better than the average (but there aren't very many of them, so it's hard to generalise). There is a very strong relationship between karma and likelihood of voting. Anyway, here's the figures I can extract at the moment. Short version: if we set the karma requirement to 10 in the last election, 677 fewer people would have voted, and 10,400 people probably wouldn't have noticed. Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: [email protected] Jabber: [email protected] _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
