Quote from: TryNinja on October 17, 2018, 02:19:33 PM

A quick read for you: MYTHBUSTERS: Only high ranked users are rewarded with merits

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For sure, if we changed absolute numbers to the relatives compare the number of all users in each group to number of users who have ever received any merit this analysis would probably look little bit different higher ranks would show bigger percent users who has been merited I wrote about a bit about it earlier here:
Quote from: cryptovigi on October 04, 2018, 12:17:36 AM
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Rank    number of users     number of users
received at least
1 merit

   number of users
with who didnt
earn any merit
Member   27 918   4 744 (17%)   23 174 (83%)
Full Member   18 181   3 173 (17,45%)   15 008 (82,55%)
Sr. Member   9 016   1 818 (20,16%)   7 198 (79,84%)
Hero Member   4 143   1 105 (26,67%)   3 038 (73,33%)
Legendary   2 145   1 133 (52,82%)   1 012 (47,18%)
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But the difference is not as much so lets leave it - its not a point of my consideration today.

To sum it up for you, If 100 newbies out of 10000 newbies got a 100 merit, and 80 legendaries out of a 100 got 100 merit... I hope you can complete the sentence.

Those stats are also missing vital information about distribution. I should include mine that I posted a few posts ago :

Quote from: KingZee on October 15, 2018, 11:03:33 AM

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Numbers! I love numbers! You count 22925 users who received at least 1 merit, nice. I count :

- 4% who received more or equal to 50 merit.
- 25% who received more or equal to 10 merit.
- 33% who received more or equal to 5 merit.
- 48% who received more or equal to 3 merit.
(all percentages are inclusive of ranks above them).

So basically, half the accounts that ever got merit, never got merited again. And the top 5% of people who got merited, are AT LEAST 50 times more likely than your average user to get merited.

Quick Edit : Also not to forget that these are 22k users who got merited at all. I wonder if we could get stats of Posts by Seniors Merited / Total Posts by Seniors, Full, Hero, Legendary. That oughtta be a fun sight.

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It's not because it has MYTHBUSTERS written in caps, and shiny pics that it makes any sort of statistical sense.