Statistical New Years Resolutions on Blakepics
Last year, like the year before that, I made a resolution to caption 35% of the photos on Blakepics (up from 20%). There were 4,040 photos added over the past year, and approx. 25% of all photos are now captioned. So I didn’t reach my goal. 1,344 photos were captioned, and if it weren’t for all those new ones it’d be standing at 30%.
Fortunately, BBC News have now deemed New Years Resolutions to be bad for your health. So like bread, second-hand smoke, guilt and vitamins, I’ve given them up.
But I thought to myself, “I’ve been captioning loads of photos every week”. I did. “I bet it’s the rest of those free-loaders not pulling their weight”. So I’ve given the Caption Status page on Blakepics a much-needed overhaul. If you’re logged in, you’ll now see how you’re doing with captioning your own photos – and even if you’re not, you can see a member list with how many photos everyone’s captioned, as well as click-through to a list of them all.
Turns out I was wrong. A lot of those free-loaders are doing a better job than me. In fact, whilst 25.01% of total photos are captioned – 25.04% of my own photos are captioned. Since most of them on there are mine, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
So it seems as though I can’t prove everything with statistics. Not if that something is how successful my 2008 Resolution has been.
Happy New Year Everyone!
#1 by Chorna on February 1, 2009 - 10:38 pm
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Oi. I’ve read this like…. 50 times.
When’re you going to post again?!
#2 by Kevin on February 1, 2009 - 11:07 pm
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Patience is a virtue
I have one or two in the drafts folder. Unfortunately, most of them are just lines of code without any ideals, stories, or morals within or around them. So I need to come up with some sort of excuse to flesh them out a bit.
Or perhaps I’ll do the patriotic thing and write some feel-good and optimistic propaganda about the state of Britain and it’s place on the world economic stage now that everything has gone to hell. It’s all about confidence, you see.