Nice findings, LoyceV.
Around 11.3% of at-least-one-merit-earned users got banned actually not a high figure.
In total,
26864 users received at least 1 Merit until last Friday's merit data dump, and 3024 of those (11.26%) have been
banned. It's probably a bit higher, my list of banned users is incomplete.
As I raised a hypothesis earlier, it might be better if you can scrap data and get several statistics:
(1) How many of them got their first merit before the demotion of Junior Members in September last year?
(2) How many of those re-promoted to Junior Members got banned after that?
(3) How long it take from the days they got their first merits and promoted again to the days their accounts got banned?
For the third question, it might be more specific if you analyse only demoted Junior members that got promoted again and banned later.
Of course, we need to look at data-evidence-based statistics.
For analysis, before digging deeply, I think you should take a quick analysis on their promoted days.
If most of newbies promoted in September last year, there is no reason to dig deeper.
I believe
most of them promoted and got bans in September last year
Additionally, I still don't really get what you imply in those two figures.
You should make a note in the OP to state what they mean.
1. 45 (43.26%)