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The statistics in the game

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:39 am
by SekoETC
Ok I've been wondering for a long while what does that stuff mean. It's accessible in the bottom of the player page. Ok it says time left but how come can usually also the lower limit and lower quartile have 200 left? Does it mean perhaps that 3/4 players don't check ther characters each day? And how can upper limit be lower than lower limit? ...Confusing.

STATISTICAL OVERVIEW CANTR
INFO ON Time Left
turn Lower_Limit Lower_Quartile Median Upper_Quartile Upper_Limit
840 200 200 200 199
...
1308

Re: The statistics in the game

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 1:22 pm
by Jos Elkink
SekoETC wrote:Does it mean perhaps that 3/4 players don't check ther characters each day?


Yes.

SekoETC wrote:And how can upper limit be lower than lower limit?


:? No idea

Re: The statistics in the game

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:57 pm
by ephiroll
Jos Elkink wrote:
SekoETC wrote:And how can upper limit be lower than lower limit?


:? No idea



They're messing with our BRAINS! *runs away screaming*

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:16 am
by KVZ
I don't understand anything from those stats :? There almost always the same numbers :shock: And by the way. I think that those stats should be AFTER language groups stats or just SPLITTED to two links. Few arguments for that:

- I doing language groups stats check very often.
- I don't get any point of those timing stats (and I bet that many players too)
- 2'nd page loads very fast, and 1'st loads very slow, so if someone want to check only 2'nd one he must wait very long.

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:21 am
by Gyrus
KeVes wrote:I don't understand anything from those stats :? There almost always the same numbers :shock: And by the way. I think that those stats should be AFTER language groups stats or just SPLITTED to two links. Few arguments for that:

- I doing language groups stats check very often.
- I don't get any point of those timing stats (and I bet that many players too)
- 2'nd page loads very fast, and 1'st loads very slow, so if someone want to check only 2'nd one he must wait very long.


+1

Please change the order at least ... take those lang group stats UP ...

:wink:

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:21 am
by Nick
KeVes wrote:- I don't get any point of those timing stats (and I bet that many players too)


Apparently even the great Jos does not know.

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:00 am
by Jos Elkink
Nick wrote:Apparently even the great Jos does not know.


That's a bit too strongly stated ;) ... I teach statistics, and I wrote that page :) ... I just don't know why the top limit can be lower than the bottom limit, although I have one suspicion what might be the reason (I probably used the formal definition of boxplots to avoid outliers affecting the stats too much, but this should have such an effect, still).

And I totally agree with the suggestion of swapping them, or removing the timelimit ones. I was surprised myself when I recently noticed they were in this order :)