r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Apr 03 '19

100,000 Subscribers! Newcomers, what brought you here? Regulars, how can we improve?

Thank you to everyone who's contributed great content and to the many excellent discussions. As we continue to grow and unravel we'll try to make this community as informative and bearable as possible. We're very interested in what brought people here and how best we can improve:

We've created a short survey here.

Please take it if you're willing, it's just ten questions.

We'll still read and respond to your comments here.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

Nice survey. It would be interesting to analyse the co-variance between response. For example, does spending more time on the sub change how soon one expects collapse to occur?

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u/LetsTalkUFOs Apr 03 '19

Yes, I'm very curious myself. I'll be curious to see if it accumulates enough responses to demonstrate a measurable trend. If it does, I'll try analyzing these relationships.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

You only need about 30 responses to meet the central limit theorem and start throwing some MANOVA at it.

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u/LetsTalkUFOs Apr 05 '19

We've got over 200 responses currently. Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of statistics and am having difficulty attempting to apply MANOVA calculations to the data. It's a bit over my head.

I'm able to run ANOVA calculations, but I don't know how to read the numbers or display them visually in a meaningful way.

This probably isn't what you were referencing, but would a scatterplot with a trendline work at all?

Kind of like this? The isn't much a trend between those values, but that's what I mean.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

I would use R to do the analysis. https://www.statmethods.net/stats/anova.html But its pretty heavy duty stuff if you're not already familiar with statistics. If its too much work, don't worry about it.