<p>So I was bored and decided to find out the ratios of the number of comments per threads in commonly visited College Confidential forums, and these are the results I got.</p>
<p>College Search and Selection___<strong><em>10.626
College Admissions</em></strong>_____<strong><em>7.016
What Are My Chances?</em></strong>_______ 6.87
SAT and ACT Tests & Test Preparation<em>10.447
Parents Forum</em>______________<strong><em>39.13
Colleges and Universities</em></strong><strong><em>9.3
Ivy League</em></strong>____________<strong><em>11.775
College Majors</em></strong>_________<strong><em>10.105
High School Life</em></strong>______________19.763</p>
<p>I just wanted to see what you guys interpret from these numbers. I think an obvious hypothesis is that the Parents Forum and High School Life have more meaningful threads than What Are My Chances? (But who knows? It's just a hypothesis), and maybe Colleges and Universities have slightly fewer comments per threads than the Ivy League because CC kids are disproportionately interested in highly selective schools (weaker hypothesis than the former, I think), and maybe Parents are more worried about college then we are (Though the heavily commented on "Class of" threads would have to factor in a lot, and the same goes for High School Life). What do you all think?</p>
<p>The numbers make sense. Though I haven’t actually gone through the Parents Forum I’d assume they spend more time having a commenting on one thread, unlike the What Are My Chances/Admissions threads which have 9001 chancemeforivy threads that are more or less the same.</p>
<p>Similar thing can be said for SAT/ACT Prep, but that’s mainly due to the fact that there aren’t enough pinned post people can refer to(I think would be a good idea to have like a study book for SATs/ACTs/etc threads pinned so that people don’t have to dig through/spam create topics to get the answers).</p>
<p>High School Life ratio is probably so big because the posts from the <strong>Official Class of 20XX</strong> counteracts the “I got an A- are ivies OOR?”. </p>
<p>Colleges/University & College Majors are pretty inactive, mainly just a bunch of threads that never get answered. Honestly I would think the numbers would be lower for those two topics.</p>
<p>Some forums (mostly this one, and the Parents Forum) are more likely to have threads that are supposed to be discussions, so they can go on forever. Each chances thread only needs a few responses, and individual threads (which are usually very similar to other individual threads) don’t stay on the first page very long because it’s one of the most popular forums on here. </p>
<p>" individual threads (which are usually very similar to other individual threads) don’t stay on the first page very long because it’s one of the most popular forums on here."</p>
<p>y’all ain’t mess with the bumpers of truth</p>
<p>The Parents Forum and HSL forum both feature threads that foster conversation and long chains of posting (Threads that are meant to be posted in over 4+ year)</p>
<p>@Apollo11 Well yeah I know that. Was curious about a bunch of different relationships, though. Like, small differences of just one extra post per thread are pretty statistically significant being that we are dealing with hundreds of thousands of posts. It seems like while Admissions is still not as length-worthy as chances, there are a few more useful topics in there. Idk, I just did this because I was bored.</p>
<p>@Cosmological
Yeah, I see what you mean. How’d you calculate your information in the first place though?</p>
<p>@Apollo11 I just went to the College Confidential home page. It shows you the number of threads and the number of posts. Sadly it doesn’t show the number of views, because that would be pretty interesting as well.</p>
<p>It’s too bad CC doesn’t let you sort by views, since some threads are really important and thus are highly-viewed, but may have only a few posts, i.e STATs threads</p>