So, I was bored…and made an analysis of an apparent "obsession"?

[NeoGreen]

So, here I was, bored with the poor quality of discussion "over there" with my laptop out with both DU up on firefox and MSExcel running.

And out of curiosity, I decided that I wanted to play with the nifty set of data that is the post listing in the religion forum.

So, I copied all 30 pages of Post titles dates, count of replies, count of views, rec counts, authors etc as text into a spread sheet.
(the dates didn’t copy over very well, which is fine, I wasn’t going to go as far as calculate posting rates)
Like I said, I was bored, just not that bored.

And by just doing some simple sorting and “count ifs” I got the following out of my list of approximately 2390 topic titles.

The number of posts by the top 10 ranked authors, by count of original posts (between1/30/2015 11:00 pm and April 11,2014 5:58 pm) is:

1) 721 or ~30.2% of all posts
2) 582 or ~24.4% of all posts
3) 116 or ~4.9% of all posts
4) 81 or ~3.4% of all posts
5) 76 or ~3.2% of all posts
6) 67 or ~2.8% of all posts
7) 49 or ~1.8% of all posts
8) 42 or ~1.8% of all posts
9) 31 or ~1.3% of all posts
10a) 30 or ~1.3% of all posts
10b) 30 or ~1.3% of all posts

Curiously, when you make a count of the words used in the Titles of the posts by the most prolific author, you get the following top 10 words (or word groups), ranked as follows:

1) Religious/Religion/Religiously: 322
2) Atheism/Atheist/Atheists: 272
3) Group(s): 32
4) New: 31
5) School(s): 30
6) Lead(s)/Leader: 28
7) Christian/Christians/Christianity: 26
8) Say(s): 25
9) Freedom(s): 25
10) Belief/Beliefs/Believer/Believers: 22

("Richard" and "Dawkins" both squeaked under at ~19 each. "Jesus" showed up 3 times {kept messing his que, just kidding})

So, anywho...

This ranked list excludes “a” at 101, “an” at 54, “and” at 85, “are” at 27, ”as” at 22, “for” at 93,”in” at 128, “is” at 45, “of” at 151, ”the” at 214, and ”to” at 156.

And, if you count the number of times “religi” appears in all topic titles for all authors, you get 709 and the number of times “athei” appears is 426.

So, the top ranked author posts ~45% of all topics with “religi” in the title and ~64% of all topics with “athei” in the title.

Given that the top ranked author is banned from this forum, it makes you wonder about the concept commonly referred to as “Obsession”.

Ok, now it is time to...