Looks like the merit is given the most on the boards deserving it the most: Meta, Beginners & Help, Technical Support, Serious Discussions and Project Development. That's good news. The Arabic speakers are apparently very generous too 
Well done on the study.
Obviously anything that is" help me please " related gets the most Merits. Well done on the study.I'm starting to make more efforts in those directions, helping newbies, photo, video tutorials, stuff like that is appreciated anywhere online i guess.
Local communities too are great since the majorities of those sections don't know English or simply suck at, that's why helping them there (native speakers) can gt them the most Merits.
Great Post OP, well done man, that's one serious quality posts, too bad i don't have Merits or else i would've gave you one
