Last week I removed the Geiger Game from the site, in order to collect a weeks worth of “uninfluenced” data. Here is my analysis:
3 May 2008, 00:00 EDT to 10 May 2008, 00:00 EDT
Measurements: 67141
Maximum CPM: 34 on 05/08/08 05:43:33 EDT
Average CPM: 11.575
Median CPM: 11
Mode CPM: 11 (7985 occurrences)
| CPM at least | Percent of the time |
|---|---|
| 1 | 100% |
| 2 | 99.9806% |
| 3 | 99.9121% |
| 4 | 99.6827% |
| 5 | 98.9455% |
| 6 | 97.2103% |
| 7 | 94.2285% |
| 8 | 89.1824% |
| 9 | 81.7265% |
| 10 | 72.0558% |
| 11 | 60.8793% |
| 12 | 48.9864% |
| 13 | 37.5895% |
| 14 | 27.3588% |
| 15 | 18.966% |
| 16 | 12.5824% |
| 17 | 7.8908% |
| 18 | 4.6782% |
| 19 | 2.6809% |
| 20 | 1.4625% |
| 21 | 0.7983% |
| 22 | 0.4006% |
| 23 | 0.21% |
| 24 | 0.0863% |
| 25 | 0.0431% |
| 26 | 0.0238% |
| 27 | 0.0134% |
| 28 | 0.0059% |
| 29 | 0.0044% |
| 30 | 0.0029% |
| 31 | 0.0014% |
| 32 | 0.0014% |
| 33 | 0.0014% |
| 34 | 0.0014% |
| 35 | 0% |
Probability and statistics are a bitch. It’s a fact of life :-P. I plan on writing a tutorial and how to interpret these numbers correctly, but until then, I just wanted to post the table above, and the raw data for others to analyze.
Graph:
May 11th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
That 34 is a freak.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:23 am
Awesome, now we actually have some numbers now! This is great.
May 12th, 2008 at 3:05 am
i’ve seen that thing at 26 quite a few times, so i guess that means we have some level of effect over it, even if it is just a few clicks. (though, even that is awesome when you think about it)
it would be interesting to see what numbers you would get if you did a weeks worth of data while it were still connected.
btw, a link to this data from the GC game page would probably be a good idea.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
I read somewhere on the net that background radiation levels, depending on your area go up to 50 CPM on average. So be happy Sean that you’re in a place with relatively low radiation hehe.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Alright, now we have something going on here! This looks like a real experiment now. I can’t wait to see the results at the end of the week.