Friday, May 25, 2007

Stats on Quiz Entries from Pharyngula

Right, so I was bored... yeah, REALLY bored and I thought, wow! what a great idea to teach myself some basic spreadsheet stuff and perform some dopey statistical analysis on everyone's entries! yay! Numbers!

***** JUNK SCIENCE WARNING!!!! ******
Take this crap seriously at your OWN RISK.
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So, here's a quick breakdown:

Scientific -
High:100% (17/38 Full Disclosures)
Low:67%
Average:93%

Militant -
High:100%
Low:8%
Average:52%

Angry -
High:92%
Low:8% (2/38)
Average:46%

Apathetic -
High:83% (3/38)
Low:17% (3/38)
Average:52%

Spiritual -
High:75%
Low:17% (3/38)
Average:45%

Agnostic -
High:75%
Low:0% (2/38)
Average:37%

Theist -
High:33%
Low:0% (7/38)
Average:14%

No suprises there. However, things got more interesting when I computed rationality.
For rationality, I took the entries and applied the following formula (yay excel!)

R = Avg(Scientific, Militant, Agnostic)/Avg(Spiritual, Angry, Theist)

Rationale:
Rational Side:
Scientific - Self Explanatory
Militant - Forthrightness with worldview.
Agnostic - Intellectual honesty

Irrational Side:
Spiritual: Wonderment
Angry: Self Explanatory
Theist: Self Explanatory

Apathy, being relatively neutral, was ignored.
Now, let's look at rationality:

Rationality -
High:3.1
Low:0.84
Average:1.86

A rationality score of 1.0 would mean that your rational and irrational sides are very nearly balanced. The higher the number goes, the more your rational side dominates. Scores near the top of the range have a roughly 3/1 dominance ratio (this is proof of aliens btw: they're obviously Vulcans), whereas the average over the group settles down to a much more moderate 1.86.

Personally, I scored a 1.68, due to that huge spirituality score.

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