Well, That Was Interesting...

Had to post this--I love me some Albert King anyway, but this is on a koto (it's called a gayageum, which is the Korean version of the koto), and it is so cool. Enjoy!

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Please. 'Die Hard'. Because the perfect remedy for all that holiday saccharine is a little cheese. Make that a lot of cheese. ;)

Here's the aggregate list of stats from the last 6.5 years of LJDQ goodness, for the period ending 12/31/10. The dates listed are those of when the answers were given.

I extended the lists of individual stats in order to recognize those who went, played, and took quiz, but never got into the rankings of any individual year. Top 20s all around!

( And now, the culmination of thousands of enjoyably misspent hours )

Well, the numbers are all in, the quotages have been tabulated, the streaks are counted, the sums are summed, the averages are averaged (no mean feat *rimshot*), and the yearly stats have been separated.

So far, here are the stats I have planned:

Quizzes (overall and by year)--
--Total number of quizzes
--Total number of questions
--Average quotages per quiz
--Average number of quizlings quoted per quiz
--Greatest number of quotages for a quiz
--Greatest number of quizlings quoted for a quiz

Individual Quotage (or IQ, if you will)--
--Most quizzes quoted
--Most quotages
--Quality: greatest average quotage, when quoted (Quotage on min. 25% of total quizzes required)
--Longest quotage streak
--The Five Quote Club (non-Grande quiz only)

I also have the Grande quizzes (more than 7 questions) stat-i-fied. Hey, some people paint better with a larger canvas. The overall stats will be skewed slightly high because of these quizzes, but since they only make up 5% of all the quizzes (15 of 319 as of 12/31), then skew it--errr, screw it, I'm including them in the overall stats.

Did I miss anything?

I'm hoping to be done this weekend, latest, but I should have them up for perusal by Friday. Depends on what diversions life hands me in the next few days.

When this is done, I plan to highlight the purged/removed usernames, just to see how many active quizlings we've got out there.

One stat that may make you go 'hmmmmm'--there were only 310 quoted quizlings (because I have no idea how many actually played) in '10, as opposed to 504 in '09. That's a decrease of 38.5%. Quizling amounts have been fairly fluid, and it may be just a case of people leaving and returning to the quiz, like catching up with an old friend. The quoted quizling count dropped 17.1% from '05 to '06, and and another 14.9% from '06 to '07, before blazing back with a 30.2% increase in '08. And the number of quoted quizlings more than tripled in the first year alone, from about 250 in '04, to over 800 in '05.

All in all, this was a nice little month-long obsession, but I'm glad it's finally done. Now I can catch up on writing my own trivia questions, being a month behind in that little task and whatnot...

Go. Play. Take quiz.

First off, if keeping score on the LJDQ spoils the experience for you, you might wanna surf elsewhere.

*waits*

So, I figured what better time than year's end to play with the LJDQ's stats a bit, amirite?

Okay, first, the basics:

710 quizlings have now earned a bonus and/or a minus
608 quizlings have earned a plus
291 have earned a minus

Subjects earning a +1 bonus: 721

The top subjects earning a +1:

1. The Simpsons: 53
(Last rank: 1)

2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail: 42
(Last rank: 2)

3. Monty Python's Flying Circus: 32
(Last rank: 3)

4. South Park: 27
(Last rank: 4)

5. The Princess Bride: 24
(Last rank: 5)

6. Blazing Saddles: 19
(Last rank: 6)

7 (tie). Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 17
(Last rank: 7)

Spaceballs: 17
(Last rank: 10)

9 (tie). Airplane!: 15
(Last rank: 11)

Punning: 15
(Last rank: 8)

The Tick: 15
(Last rank: 9)

Completing the Top 20:
12 (tie):
Finding Nemo
Ghostbusters
Going old school
Star Wars: Episode IV

16 (tie):
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Conan the Barbarian
Monty Python's The Life of Brian

19 (tie):
Animaniacs
Firefly
Futurama
Pulp Fiction
Weird Al

New to the rankings:
Conan the Barbarian (for the same quote. Every. Single. Time)
Pulp Fiction
Weird Al

Falling off the radar:
Terry Pratchet/Discworld
Back to the Future
Calvin and Hobbes
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Lyrics
SNL

The minuses remain fairly unchanged, top to bottom, but Captain Planet is moving up the neg charts with a bullet.

Geek of the Week Awards: 95
I tell ya, we need to come up with a special prize for the century mark.

And now, the quizling stats:

There are currently 37 quizlings who are in the Double Digits Club, earning +10 or more in bonuses.

The Quizling Top 20
1. Why, it's me, i_calql8! (54, +6 since last record, up 1 in ranking)
2. astridsdream (52, +0, down 1)
3. thepikey (31, +3, no change)
4. etcet (29, +5, up 1)
5. sskipstress (28, +2, down 1)
6. (tie) squeegibo (20, +6, up 3)
6. (tie) umbralcorax (20, +0, no change)
8. (tie) blindgeoff (18, +4, up 1)
8. (tie) fizrep (18, +0, down 1)
8. (tie) marasca (18, +0, down 1)
11. (tie) akiyasan (17, +4, up 3)
11. (tie) drbear (17, +4, up 3)
13. (tie) cholma (16, +5, up 9)
13. (tie) wiredwizard (16, +3, up 1)
15. (tie) babybokal (15, +2, down 1)
15. (tie) cmzero (15, +1, down 6)
15. (tie) n5iln (15, +3, up 5)
18. (tie) spatialrift47 (14, not ranked previously)
18. (tie) woap (14, +0, down 9)
18. (tie) zihuatanejo (14, +1, down 4)

The Clean-Living Squad (most +1s with no minuses):
1. cholma, 16
2. n5iln, 15
3. zihuatanejo, 14
4. (tie) deza, 11
4. (tie) kristinmachina, 11

Please keep in mind that these stat involve bonuses only, not total quotage.

I figure this little statfest should be a yearly thing, so the changes from year to year are much more noticeable.

Any questions about where your favorite topic landed, bonuswise? You have but to ask.

In the words of Messrs. Bartles and James, thank you for your support.

Well, that was interesting. I finished cataloguing and updating prices on all my comics.

My Spidey #1 went up 9% in value, and my Justice League #1 went up 7%. Sweet. And those are with my coservative eye toward grading. Hopefully, they're in better condition than I think.

As predicted, I have over 8,000 comics in my collection, and it's growing like the Blob in the bowling alley. Well, maybe not that fast...I'm down to reading about a half-dozen comics a month. And I have a box of old comics, most of which are probably dross, that I still need to rebag and catalogue. Damned if I'm schlepping all the boxes back out, though...

My comic store's pull list is pretty much Astro City, Echo, Justice League, and Justice Society now. Any monthlies I should know about that I need to give a try? I've been catching up on The Walking Dead, which is admittedly pretty good, even though I'm not a fan of the whole zombie genre.

There's a potential trivia category for me! Hmmmmmmmmm...

First of all, thanks for the kind words from my fellow LJDQers in response to my statisticial pseudo-magnum opus. It's nice to be appreciated. Someday, I may actually make a quotage roster for Quizling Proper. But that's for another time.

Second, monsoons are here...just in time for the highs to reach 115 by week's end. Wonderful. The good news--we're two weeks from statistically the hottest day of the year. It goes downhill slowly from there. Slowly, but downward. Other good news...only eight more monsoon seasons to go before we retire and get the hell, as it were, out of here, and head for the cool, rainy Northwest.

Oh, and feel free to join my f-list, in case there is the astronomically unlikely event that my LJ seems interesting to you. The f-list gets the juicy, only slightly less-boring stuff of my life, aka the best rants, if there is such a thing.

chaosvizier and lovellama are on my f-list, so you know it contains nothing by the finest kind of people that LJ has to offer. And chaosvizier, too. ;)

To a few, my LJ provides entertainment. To most, however, it provides some good schadenfreude. Now, who can resist that?

Every plus and minus from every LJDQ has been compiled. Give me a day to rest, and I will work my statistical magic on the findings. If you have anything you are curious about, ask--if it concerned +1s, -1s, or the subjects thereof, or the stats of the quizlings, I will try to answer them. If I can't, I will say so.

Remember, this is just about +1, -1, and stuff like that--if I had to find the total quotage of each and every quizling, my head would splodey.

Oh, btw, since you asked, lovellama, your first guest-modding was 1/16/07's quiz.

In other news, the Cubs are back to sucking, and I repaired a broken toilet seat, moved a couch, moved a recliner, carried three bookshelves, cleaned the living room, mailed a huge eBay package full of comics, and played Taxi Dad.

How did I find the time to make this list of LJDQ stats? Beat the hell out of me.

*looks at clock*

Holy shit--I gotta get some sleep!

*heads for bed*

What I am doing:

1) listing all of the +s and -s each LJDQ quizling has received
2) listing all the categories of the +1s, -1s, and other miscellaneous bonii (huh huh, he said 'bonii')
3) making a frequency table of all the +1 and -1 categories

What I am not doing:

1) counting all the quotages of each individdle quizling. Oh, hell, no.

I am through May, 2006, so far. Interesting tidbits:

--Biggest plus: +5, several reasons
--Biggest minus: -10,000, by Ang, for rooting for the Steelers
--Total Geek of the Week Awards so far: 49
--Recipient of the most GotWs: Probably atarlas. No one else is even close
--Despite the mods' alleged love for Sting, there have only been two +1s for mentioning him
--Highest + score, without acquiring a - of any kind: paradoxtaur, 10

Mods +/- scores so far:
chaosvizier: 0, (+3, -3)
angledge: -11, (+3, -11)
lovellama: -2, (+1, -3)

Leading +1 references, in order of frequency:
1) The Simpsons
2) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3) The Princess Bride
tie 4) Monty Python's Flying Circus
4) Punning

Total quizlings who have received a + or -, so far, purged or otherwise: 386
Total +1 categories so far: 325
Total +1 bonuses given by the benevolent mods: 490
Total -1 categories so far: 110
Total -1 penalties given by the malevolent mods: 185

Two years of quizzes down, four to go.