Things you really want to see in "Cantr Statististics

[gejyspa]

Hmmm.. I don't recall seeing more than one or two redheads in cantr. In my RL household, it reaches 29%, though . Red hair in the world as a whole is rare, of course -- only 1 or 2%. But in isolated populations, it can be much higher. Scotland, 13%, Ireland 10%, Ashkenazi Jews (of which our family is part) is also pretty high (I don't have the exact numbers, but I estimate 5-8%)

[Joshuamonkey]

I'd like to find out what percentage of cantrarians have red hair contrasted against the percentage of actual humans.

It seems that the number is actually very low (not all characters use descriptions). And there seems to be around 1.8 times as many with brown hair, and about 1.4 as many with blonde hair. There seems to be nearly as many with black hair as there are with brown hair. (This isn't using very accurate data, but it gives the general idea.)
According to Wikipedia, black is the most common hair color in the world (probably because of asians), brown is second, and red is the least common hair color. There's a few people in my family with red hair (not blood related). And brown is the most common in Europe.

So yes, compared to the other hair colors, there should probably be a lot less of red than there is currently, if you wanted to match real life.

[RedQueen.exe]

I'd like to find out what percentage of cantrarians have red hair contrasted against the percentage of actual humans.

It seems that the number is actually very low (not all characters use descriptions). And there seems to be around 1.8 times as many with brown hair, and about 1.4 as many with blonde hair. There seems to be nearly as many with black hair as there are with brown hair. (This isn't using very accurate data, but it gives the general idea.)
According to Wikipedia, black is the most common hair color in the world (probably because of asians), brown is second, and red is the least common hair color. There's a few people in my family with red hair (not blood related). And brown is the most common in Europe.

So yes, compared to the other hair colors, there should probably be a lot less of red than there is currently, if you wanted to match real life.

I think we have to rule out people that don't use descriptions, no way to tell what color they'd pick. Maybe it's just me, but I feel I've run into a lot more cantrarians with red hair than people in waking life, and in waking life I don't have to click buttons to actively notice the person's hair color.

No telling how many red-headed cantrarians I missed. I'm guilty of it myself anyway, at least 2-3 of mine are red-heads or red-ish, but then again I'm only interested when things don't match reality, not offended.

[SumBum]

I've always thought there were more redheads in Cantr vs the ratio in real life. Just as there are far more "perfect" bodies or beautiful people in Cantr. People use different words to describe red hair, though: red, copper, crimson, ginger, strawberry, fiery, etc etc.

[SekoETC]

I've seen loads of redheads in Cantr, and in the past I've tried to make statistics about hair color and other things but there are so many different shades that it's hard to classify them. For example if somebody is strawberry blond, that's technically blond with a bit of red, while if someone is ash blond, that might look more like light brown to someone else.

[RedQueen.exe]

I'm betting the height distribution is way off for cantrarians too. I suspect it's much more flat for them and less of a bell curve. I see plenty of 6'2-3"s and 5'2"s. Maybe slightly taller overall, too.

[Snickie]

I've seen a few redheads in Cantr, but not nearly as much as brunettes and blondes. I myself have no specified redheads. However, I did consider making my Spanish character a redhead, and I guess her description could allow for that (she is described as having dark hair; red can be dark, yes?); and the other character whose hair colour I don't specify I often imagine as a honey or strawberry-blonde color.
I have one character with obviously blonde hair, and another whose hair could be described as "ash blonde" but whose description I have as "sandy brown". The other five are dark brunettes and black-haired. Except maybe one of mine who has dark copper-red streaks, but her hair is mostly black anyway. (I just outed myself with that.) I dunno if that'll mess up your statistics or anything, though.

As for perfect bodies, I've probably only one character with that, and the rest are unappealing in some sense, whether it be too short, too thin (yes, there is such a thing), too stocky/fat, too smelly (I have roleplayed being smelly), too dirty (this, too, I have roleplayed), or just not curvy for most of my females.

Edit: Heightwise, I think I'm fairly balanced. I have three characters described as what I believe to be "tall"; two of my characters are short (one is sort of a midget, actually), and the other four are pretty average, although I've noticed 5'7" seems to come up a lot in my descriptions for my females.

Eye colour is one I've been interested in for awhile. I've seen SO many characters with green eyes I'm seeing pink spots everywhere. Granted, I have two with green, but still.

[Rebma]

I spawned in a town where -everyone- with descriptions had red hair. So naturally, I took on that characteristic (keeping location and civilization level and resources into consideration of course).

[Joshuamonkey]

I've noticed 5'7" seems to come up a lot in my descriptions for my females.

That's my height in real life. *wants to grow*

Eye colour is one I've been interested in for awhile. I've seen SO many characters with green eyes I'm seeing pink spots everywhere. Granted, I have two with green, but still.

That's a good point. However, since I have green eyes in real life, I have a good excuse. I often have my characters have similar characteristics as me. Actually, they all have brown hair as far as I know. (I still don't have desriptions for all of my characters..the fact that most of my characters were spawned after it was possible to write descriptions is one excuse) In fact..only 3 of my characters have descriptions, and they're not very long. *hides*

[Snickie]

I've noticed 5'7" seems to come up a lot in my descriptions for my females.

That's my height in real life. *wants to grow*

I'm taller than you! I'm 5'8".
Most of my characters were created when I was 5'7", though. It seemed like a good number, and suddenly those characters seem short.

Eye colour is one I've been interested in for awhile. I've seen SO many characters with green eyes I'm seeing pink spots everywhere. Granted, I have two with green, but still.

That's a good point. However, since I have green eyes in real life, I have a good excuse.

That's my excuse as to why four out of nine of my characters have brown eyes.

As for hair color, (didn't I just talk about this? lol), two are distinctly brown-haired, three have primarily black hair, one is blonde (and when I say blonde, I mean white-blonde), one is the one I mentioned with the ash-blonde / sandy brown hair, and the other two are unspecified. Woohoo!

[pyrphoros]

And no, I didn't call them (us) dorks.

You did by grammatical implication - there's no separation of thoughts in your post. "No, Seriously..." in this case acts as a bridge between your statements, not as a negation of your first statement.

Don't think that I'm picking on your grammar, just that I read this as completely opposite of how you intended, so I wanted to be clear as to why.

And completely off-topic, but yes, I do think that you can be racist to your own race. Rappers use that argument all the time, and I don't think it holds water. People keeping themselves down is more insidious than another people oppressing them.

Consecutively asking two questions about different subjects do not necessarily implies that the first and the second subjects are substitutive. As if I ask you two of these:

1. How many telletubbies are there in the game?
2. How many killers are there in the game?

Especially when the first (or the other one) is meant for joking only, as in:

1. How many snores did he make last night?
2. How many cookies did he make last night?

More than that; relation between the two subjects of two question are always relative, depends on who read them. For example:

1. How many flowers are there in the house?
2. How many Bandung Girls are there in the house?

'Flowers' and 'Bandung Girls' don't necessarily substitutive or even related to each other for peoples outside Indonesia or for peoples that never had exposed to Indonesian culture. But here, 'flowers' can easily be interpreted as 'Bandung Girls'.

Another example is, when an American asked these question:

1. How many dorks are there in the house?
2. How many Republicans are there in the house?

For an American, or whoever had ever being exposed to American culture, the intention can be very very political. But for a common man from a town in Jaipur, India, those would be entirely different question.

Then, as a finale, no Doug, I did not intent my questions to be a racist one, and I am not a racist also. The first question was just a joke.

[pyrphoros]

And no, I didn't call them (us) dorks.

You did by grammatical implication - there's no separation of thoughts in your post. "No, Seriously..." in this case acts as a bridge between your statements, not as a negation of your first statement.

Don't think that I'm picking on your grammar, just that I read this as completely opposite of how you intended, so I wanted to be clear as to why.

And completely off-topic, but yes, I do think that you can be racist to your own race. Rappers use that argument all the time, and I don't think it holds water. People keeping themselves down is more insidious than another people oppressing them.

Another thing is regarding "no, seriously" phrase; I thought, Doug, and I still think that it could be easily understood as "no, I don't really want to know that. The serious, the real question, is ...".

[Doug R.]

You missed my point entirely, but I'm not going to derail this thread any further discussing it.

[RedQueen.exe]

I'm taller than you! I'm 5'8".
Most of my characters were created when I was 5'7", though. It seemed like a good number, and suddenly those characters seem short.

I'm 6'1".

A lot of my male characters also have atypically long hair, probably because I've always wanted to regrow mine to or past where I had in in college. About half my male characters have shoulder/neck length hair or longer.

[Snickie]

OffT:
I get exactly the point Doug is trying to make. Allow me to try to clarify, and if my attempts fail, I'll drop the subject.

In America (ESPECIALLY nowadays), certain phrases and the way they're written (positioning counts too) give phrases different meanings. For example:

How many dorks play cantr? No, seriously, how many Indonesian players are there?

American interpretation of "no, seriously" appears after a question or statement that would/could otherwise be interpreted as a joke, and is usually followed by an elaboration. Your sentence followed this format: in American interpretation, the "no seriously" translates the subjects of your statements to "dorks --> Indonesians".
However, if you had written something more along the lines of this:

How many dorks play Cantr?
No, I'm just kidding.
What I really want to know is how many Indonesian players play Cantr.

Do you get what I'm trying to explain?

It might be different in Indonesia, just like British-English differs from American-English differs from Australian-English in some senses. I'm not going to press the issue any more. But in the future, please remember to consider your audience.


OnT:
I want to know how many males have beards/no beards in their descriptions!

Two of my males are completely clean-shaven and smooth-faced (I did experiment with a moustache for one of them, but the idea was too....eh....for me and he shaved it off), and the other one has grown a thin beard, but he shaves it.