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MOST POPULAR DISCUSSIONS? ONE SITE, ONE DAY'S SAMPLE, AND AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT ANSWERS.
SOFIR.org ^ | June 4, 2009 | n/a

Posted on 06/04/2009 7:27:14 PM PDT by Cindy

04 June 2009

MOST POPULAR DISCUSSIONS? ONE SITE, ONE DAY'S SAMPLE, AND AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT ANSWERS. 140 discussions were selected on the basis of having activity within the previous 24 hours.

What were the ten most popular threads?

To answer this, it is necessary to decide how to measure popularity. Two options come to mind: the gross number of views a discussion receives, and the rate (expressed as a percent) at which viewers respond by participating in a discussion.[1]

I required that a discussion have a minimum of 100 views in order to qualify it for the top ten list. The choice was arbitrary, but as it turns out the mean number of views in the sample is 92 and the median is 37.[2] I did this in order to prevent a situation where, for example, a discussion would be in the top ten list because it had two viewers and one response (i.e. a 50% response rate for an otherwise unpopular thread).

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Reference
KEYWORDS: 2answers; discussionthread; internet; oneday

1 posted on 06/04/2009 7:27:15 PM PDT by Cindy
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Table 1
http://internet-haganah.org/hmedia/2009-06-04/sort_by_total_views.html

Table 2
http://internet-haganah.org/hmedia/2009-06-04/sort_by_response_rate.html

Table 3
http://internet-haganah.org/hmedia/2009-06-04/means_medians_views_rates.html


2 posted on 06/04/2009 7:28:59 PM PDT by Cindy
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I’m missing the point. Please elaborate


3 posted on 06/04/2009 7:52:23 PM PDT by stylin19a (saddest sign I ever saw: "Slow Children Playing")
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To: stylin19a

So what were the threads talking about...that’s the important thing we need to know.


4 posted on 06/04/2009 7:56:00 PM PDT by Explodo (Pessimism is simply pattern recognition)
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Adding a link:

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en


5 posted on 06/04/2009 8:08:02 PM PDT by Cindy
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