#averages

[whetstonefires]

to continue my tradition of mdzs height posting, another character besides mo xuanyu who is routinely and unjustly described as tiny: Wen Qing.

according to the officially released heights, she and jin guangyao are roughly the same size. about five and a half feet tall.

which is on the small side for a man even in china, though not in medieval china, and is ofc loads smaller than the ridiculous giants making up most of the cultivator elite, but is not actually a small person.

that's statistically above average for a woman even in the modern US; in modern china it is often hard for women that height to find off-the-rack clothes. in a historical chinese setting she is mildly gargantuan. five foot six is a positively unmaidenly height.

wei wuxian (as i've previously discussed) is slightly over six feet tall at his original full growth, which is stupid tall even when you're an aristocrat who didn't starve as a child. wen qing is, in turn, too tall for wei wuxian to hook his chin over her head, even if he stands on his toes, unless she ducks.

he's got maybe more than half a head on her. she could headbutt him in the nose from a standing start, as could most adult men because he's a freak.

wen qing would walk among a group of normal-in-context women like a turkey among hens. she is not tiny.

i know cql kind of made her look that way, but in fairness their version of lan wangji is a stick of no great height also. and even on cql she's not particularly small, just exceedingly pale and slim with big eyes. i truly do not know why it's so popular to conceptualize her as teeny-tiny, except maybe for the contrast value. it's not even hornyposting.

[peachesanmemes]

I saw your DD graph asking for other ideas, so... if you still have any desire to do further Dracula graphs I'd be curious to see how the word count per character breaks down (not how much they speak but how much they write. Adding all their diary entries together, etc.). Obviously Mina wins by default from having typed up the whole novel but outside of that detail, how much did each person author?

Thank you so much for this ask! What an interesting data set this one is! Lots of unexpected information.

So first off, if you just want to visualize the author breakdown, ta-dahhhh!

Seward was staunchly in the lead, talking his head off and burning through those wax recording drums like no ones business. Poor Mina for having to transcribe it all. In total his words made up 39.3% of Dracula. Nearly 40%!

Seward unsurprisingly had the most individual entries overall at 47, and had the longest streak for being the narrator in an entry at 10 days (09/02 - 09/11) with Mina following right behind at 9 days (08/10 - 08/19)

Mina surprisingly was 3rd overall both in word count and number of entries. She wasn't even in the top 3 for most words in a day which is as follows.

1 - Seward October 3rd - 9942 words

2 - Seward September 29th - 7206 words

3 - Jonathan October 3rd - 5944 words

Van Helsing only had 9 entries total but still came in number 4 for word count, in front of Lucy. It's interesting to note that the amount a person writes doesn't correlate to the amount of time they are being written about/appear. Which is why Arthur and Quincey don't even beat out the newspaper clippings for words, lol.

There are lots of authors we only hear from a single time, like Sister Agatha. So I've decided to make a small fry pie as well. (Authors under ~500 words)

The captain of the Demeter and Van Helsing both had more days written than Lucy! Though I didn't break up number of entries, like when the log of the Demeter had 3 or 4 on one day or Lucy wrote a letter and in her diary.

If there is any data I haven't presented here that you're interested in feel free to tag me or shoot me an ask like this lovely person did!

[fundiepredictions]

Stats (part nineteen)

Average age to get married for woman

Caldwell (18,83) was 18,83

Rodrigues (20,53) was 20,51

Bates (21,90) was 21,90

Duggar (22,75) was 22,00

Keller (23,09) was 23,09

Total (23,19) was 23,09

Bontrager (24,11) was 24,11

Maxwell (25,89) was 25,89

Wissmann (26,02) was 25,16

Average age to get married for man

Caldwell (21,33) was 21,33

Bontrager (22,98) was 22,98

Keller (23,18) was 23,18

Duggar (23,54) was 22,94

Rodrigues (24,09) was 23,96

Bates (24,64) was 24,64

Total (24,71) was 24,60

Wissmann (26,75) was 26,27

Maxwell (28,10) was 28,10

The Duggars are still belowe average despite Jana getting married so late. Impressive

[lazymonth]

More Avenues ( and a guy who’s everyone favorite ) in spider-sona universe

I need to take a break and go draw something else a bit

[def-notagoose]

Auburn University's avg. GPA from 1993 to 2023

Source: https://auburn.edu/administration/ir/factbook/retention-performance/term-gpa-class-gender.html

[nochd]

Not only that, but since the number of people with fewer than two arms is far less than 0.5% of the population, then if we round to the nearest percentage point, 100% of people have more than the average number of arms.

[ohitspurple2]

[originalleftist]

If you're wondering why polling averages are suddenly showing Trump winning despite all the bad news he's gotten lately- it might have something to do with this:

Basically, Republicans are ratfucking the polling averages by churning out huge numbers of partisan polls, and the polling aggregators/analysts like 538 aren't doing due diligence to compensate for it.

Now, what is the purpose of this?

Well, in the immediate-term, it creates a narrative that Trump is winning, boosting morale of his supporters while demoralizing support for Democrats and Harris.

Beyond that, if polling averages show that Trump is winning ahead of election day-which we can pretty much guarantee they will, because see above-then they will use that as "proof" of fraud if Democrats subsequently win.

Basically, they are engineering a pretext for their next coup attempt in front of us.

The only numbers that decide anything are actual votes. So ignore the polls, and VOTE.

[ryan-sometimes]

TERF shocked to discover that the real world is not an online echo chamber, and that instead the average woman either supports or just doesn’t care about trans people the way they do

[sixties-doctor-who-stan]

I must admit now that I’m 27 the fact that Matt Smith was only 26 seems WILDLY young to me 😅

Even though when I was 12 I thought he was too young because in my head the Doctor had to be “old” (which meant over 30… I was a kid after all)

I remember being shocked back in 2014 when Capaldi was announced because they mentioned how he was the same age as Hartnell.

Though I should mention that Hartnell was playing an older character — with a wig and old fashioned clothes, other photos of him at the time make him look closer to his actual age (though still looking a bit older than what we’d expect since he was in poor health)

Patrick Troughton was actually a bigger shock to me as a teen, I was sure he was in his 50s when he did Doctor Who. Though I think that’s partly due to the deep lines around his mouth that made him look older

What also shocks me is how (relatively) young the first two Doctors died. 67 seems absurdly young these days when living to 80 (especially if you’re somewhat well off) is fairly common. What all the excessive smoking and drinking of the era did to so many people.

Ages of each actor in their first appearance as the Doctor:

John Hurt (War) 73

William Hartnell (First) 55

Peter Capaldi (Twelfth) 55

David Tennant (Fourteenth) 51

Jon Pertwee (Third) 50

Patrick Troughton (Second) 46

Sylvester McCoy (Seventh) 43

Colin Baker (Sixth) 40

Christopher Eccleston (Ninth) 40

Tom Baker (Fourth) 40

Paul McGann (Eighth) 36

Jodie Whittaker (Thirteenth) 35

David Tennant (Tenth) 34

Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth) 30

Peter Davison (Fifth) 29

Matt Smith (Eleventh) 26

The oldest actor to portray The Doctor was 73 and the youngest was 26.

The median age of Classic Who is 44 and New Who has a median age of 37.5

The average age overall is 42.

Also the new era contains both the oldest and youngest actor in the role.

[feluka]

if you moralize to people in the global south about piracy youre going to hell btw. no atonement no take backsies. guaranteed hell forever permanently.

[peachesanmemes]

Total length of each Dracula Daily entry!

Figured I would repost it this year in a less specific date way. Scroll if you don’t want to know! - I’m only tagging this as potential spoiler, as it only relates to the story in a meta way.

Total, the journey takes 189 days, 111 of those have entries (58.73%)

Bram’s longest on streak is 19 days - September 17th to October 6th

Bram’s longest off streak is 11 days - June 6th to June 16th

In the top three positions for length we have September 29th “An Eventful Day” - 9,034 words October 1st “The Attack” - 10,259 words October 3rd “A Day Full of Action” - 15,883 words

There are 160,720 words total, making an average of 1,448 words per entry, (though 22% of the total book is in the top 3 days)

Google says it takes around 5 minutes to read 1,000 words

October 31st has 420 words (yes really)

Let me know if there’s any more data you want! I love making graphs!

[fundiepredictions]

Stats (part sixteen)

Male: 152 Female: 163 Unkown: 1 (baby Vuolo)

Don't know where the female lead comes from...

65 who are a first child 52 second child 41 third child 29 fourth child 23 fifth child 14 sixth child 15 seventh child 11 eight child 9 ninth child 6 tenth child

Please note that I added the spouses too, so thats why there are more seventh children then sixth children.

Average age 1st child: 26, 10 (m) 24,35 (f) 2nd child: 27,80 (m) 25,91 (f) 3rd child: 29,72 (m) 27,67 (f) 4th child: 31,46 (m) 29,60 (f) 5th child: 33,64 (m) 31,64 (f) 6th child: 34,24 (m) 32,41 (f) 7th child: 35,94 (m) 34,68 (f) 8th child: 36,39 (m) 35,10 (f) 9th child: 36,80 (m) 34,71 (f) 10th child: 37,80 (m) 35,33 (f)

Please note these are averages. The further down, the less numbers so it makes it less accurate.

[mapsontheweb]

Average color of US states based on satellite imaging.