(ot) gamers harpers index?

[alsih2o]

for those of you unfamiliar with harpers index, here is a sample:

Average # of times an american opens the refrigerator each day: 22
Percentage of refrigerators in american households that are either white or almond: 99
Portion of all U.S. telephones that are in the kitchen:1/3
Chances that an american will use a recipe when cooking dinner: 1 in 5
Percentage of americans who say that the leftovers in their refrigerator are over 4 weeks old: 5

and on and on...now, can we come up with a gamers index? even an enworld index?

 

[Crothian]

I think we could, what questions would you have asked?

 

[alsih2o]

i think the idea is for each poster to come up with a statement or question they can place a numeric value to.

examples-
#of post any given day-
highest # of post on any day-
# of pdf publishers in d20-
ratio of men to women on the board-
# of characters it took you to get thru rtttoee-
yadayada

 

[arwink]

Hmm. How would you work such things out? I'm sure I don't remember the greatest number of posts I've done in one day.

 

[Maldur]

like ?

# posters who DM( or GM) regulary
# posters who play regulary
# posters who do both

 

[alsih2o]

try a google search on "harper's index" it iwll show you the method better than i can explain...strings of the numbers sometimes interact

i was gonna include one, but there were some highly charged political statements in the recent ones, and i didn't want to go there

 

[megamania]

In my games:

Average Encounters a session 3.5
Average Amount rolled on a d20 die 12
Average bags of chips eaten per game 2
Average # 1/2 eaten bags from prior games 3
Average number of curses per game 100+
....due to a rolled 1 6
GM loses an important note / paper per game 1



Good for a start?

 

[alsih2o]

well, barring the deluge you are gonna get for what i see as a math err, yeah, it is a great start, combining fact, factoid and humor to effect