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#6
Additional statistics (Jason? You there?)
Assuming that these statistics were generated via some kind of search engine and it's easy to do, it would also be interesting to see (on each forum):
(i) Who started the most threads, and how many (in my world we call this authorships); and
(ii) Average thread lengths (numbers of responses) for these people (in my world we call this citations).
I don't know for sure, but I think these would differ from the overall contributions already posted.
And, man, I REALLY hope my boss doesn't visit this site, at least for a few weeks!
(i) Who started the most threads, and how many (in my world we call this authorships); and
(ii) Average thread lengths (numbers of responses) for these people (in my world we call this citations).
I don't know for sure, but I think these would differ from the overall contributions already posted.
And, man, I REALLY hope my boss doesn't visit this site, at least for a few weeks!
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Hey, it could become a full-time job...
...if you had the resources.
Over on A6 Stoney suggested listing message hits, for example.
He also suggested compiling a sort of signal/noise ratio -- if you could do this, you could patent it and get rich!
So I'm suggesting this only if it's easy. And even these "authorships" and "citations" are imperfect -- for example, people who troll might get lots of "citations" for no reason other than they're full of it. But over the long haul, these two statistics are what's used in the academic community for measuring contributions and impact. Thanks for your interest.
Over on A6 Stoney suggested listing message hits, for example.
He also suggested compiling a sort of signal/noise ratio -- if you could do this, you could patent it and get rich!
So I'm suggesting this only if it's easy. And even these "authorships" and "citations" are imperfect -- for example, people who troll might get lots of "citations" for no reason other than they're full of it. But over the long haul, these two statistics are what's used in the academic community for measuring contributions and impact. Thanks for your interest.