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Title
Psych
Study
A submission for
Prof.
wharfinger
's
Understanding the wily noder
course (PSY 607).
Introduction
In an effort to understand the
voting habits
of average
Everythingians
, we carefully selected a group of
noders
of varying
experience
. In the course of the
experiment
, we exposed the
noders
to a variety of nodes, and
watched
their reaction.
Study Group
23 participants were selected, 2 each from levels 2 through 12, and one from level 13. All participants'
identities
were kept
anonymous
via
double-blind
. All participants were paid a nominal
fuzzle
.
Node Title Selection
A set of node titles were selected, to get
maximum distribution
across the following
variables
:
Node title length
Proper capitalization
Acronyms
Use of keywords and phrases
Results
The results are easily summarized:
Noders are fickle
. That aside, several trends arose:
Short node titles (especially
4 word node titles
) very rarely generated enough interest to get any votes.
Nodes that begin with two
ALLCAPS
words, followed by normally capitalized words,
garnered
a lot of upvotes.
StudlyCaps
node titles drew a lot of votes, split 60/40 betwwen up and down.
Acronyms
, as with short node titles, gathered few votes.
Use of any of the following keywords:
Soy
,
lesbians
,
monkeys
,
nuke
, or
religious
guaranteed every noder voted on them. 80% of the noders wanted to write up something in these nodes.
She dumped me when she found out I'd been faking my Scottish accent
Systematic downvoting
Fuzzle
StudlyCaps