04 June 2012

Null Hypothesis


Well, another decade is down and it’s time to start the analysis.  I’m no scientist but I have read a lot of science fiction.  I think that qualifies me to do fictional science.  It’s not even pseudo-science.  It’s HEP style.

To begin, I was interested in how the first two decades stack up against one another and the result was:



Figure 1: The HEP SCANALYZER detected high levels of embedded datastats

Both the HEP Scores and the length of the books gradually increased, though unsurprisingly, there doesn’t seem to be any correlation between the two. (Frantz, 2012)  Nevertheless I think I was able to capture a very nearly accurate formula for determining future HEP Scores.  After validating the formula with existing data from the 50’s and 60’s, the result is conclusively indecisive but highly exciting nonetheless!

Next, I used the hypothesis that x to determine a formula for predicting future HEP Scores.  I haven’t had this peer reviewed yet, but once I have a few more years of data I can further refine my calculations and probably submit my findings to the journal Nature, probably.  Anyway, here’s the HEP Score formula:



Where:



The next step layer of analysis investigated the levels and sources of acquisition support.  These people/places have facilitated significant time spent on book reviews with minimal investment.  Thanks!



Figure 2: Sources of reading books

In this case, you can see a subset of the population are actually cohorts with the book reviewer and further analysis showed their contributions aided in the procurement of hard-to-find titles.  Holla.

Works Cited

Frantz, J. R. (2012). My Brain. The Genius Review, 1064.

10 comments:

  1. Don't you do enough of this analysis stuff at work??

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    1. It would be great if I did more analysis of the amount of coffee and cookies I consume! I wish!

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  2. Absolutely awesome stats! You may have to increase your Paragons column.

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    1. Thanks, I think I'm gonna keep the chart going for the entirety.

      You are probably right about the paragons but I fully expect the paragon list to change as I move through the years. I wanted it to be a part of the pain. I wanted to have something that would pit my favorites against each other. Now that I'm just populating the list there haven't been any posts about it, but once it's populated I'll probably have to justify why I'm kicking one off.

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  3. ...and it sure is a LOT of cookies.

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    1. Well sometimes it is, but that only works if the rest of the equation works out. Actually I don't think I wrote that logarithm correctly though. I think my reviews get better the more coffee and cookies I consume so they should have been on the bottom. Also that is not how you write out a log function. I'll blame it on (a) because of the lack of naps ;)

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    2. You decide how many naps you take. Maybe you should take some lessons from the people you keep close because we are doing a great job keep up our nap quota.

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    3. I think you have exceeded your nap quota, thus preventing me from using my own nap tokens.

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  4. an amusing post. I started to glaze over at the logorithm (a horrible habit), then gave it a second look--cookies? "-nap" you inspire me to make use of my own collection of data.

    L (omphaloskepsis)

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    1. Wait...an English Lit major glazed over my formula? Shocking ;)

      Look for the cookie button on your calculator. It's there, you just have to squint.

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