Strong Bad Email Statistics
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With more and more Strong Bad Emails released on homestarrunner.com, it is hard to keep track of all the statistics, such as which computer was used the most, or how the length of emails has increased throughout the years. To correctly calculate those numbers, a few charts and graphs have been made for the ease of the people who like to know everything about Strong Bad and his emails.
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Strong Bad Email by length
This section involves data taken from the list Strong Bad Email By Length.
- The scatter plot shows a fairly strong positive correlation between Email Number and Email Length. The r value between these two variables without deleting outliers is .7302.
- An r value of 1 would indicate a perfect, positive correlation. A value of -1 indicates a perfect, negative correlation. Therefore, .7302 indicates a fairly strong, positive correlation.
- This plot shows there are a handful of clear outliers which are likely affecting the correlation. In the plot below, the outliers have been removed. A Least Squares Regression Line (LSRL) has also been added.
- The outliers were defined as those emails with a residual value of 65 or greater, or -65 or less.
- The LSRL can be used to extrapolate, or guess the length of future emails. The r value of this line is .8422.
- The equation for the LSRL is y = 1.2141x + 50.428. y = Time (seconds); x = Email number
- This method of guessing is not 100% accurate, since it is unlikely the emails will ever be, say, 20 minutes long. This equation should not be considered a foolproof method for guessing the length of an email, but it does give a nice idea of what the average length of an email is at a given point in time.
Strong Bad Email by era
This section involves data on the computer used to answer each email, or the "era" of the computer. The categories are Tandy 400, Broken Tandy, Compy 386, Lappy 486, and Other. (So far, other is Pom Pilot, Tangerine Dreams, and Corpy NT6.)
Total time spent using each computer
This section involves data taken from the Strong Bad Email by Length page. The chart recognizes four categories of computers: Tandy 400 (includes Broken Tandy), Lappy 486, Compy 386, and Other.
Strong Bad Emails featuring more than one email
Several Strong Bad Emails feature more than one email.
- the chair — 2 emails
- retirement — 2 emails, part a and part b
- huttah! — 7 emails
- personal favorites — 5 emails
- spring cleaning — 5 emails
- 50 emails — 4 emails
- cheatday — 4 emails
- E-mail Birds — 3 emails
- 2 emails — 3 emails (third is fast-forwarded through)
- bottom 10 — 2 emails
- credit card — 2 emails
- lady...ing — 2 emails
- lunch special — 2 emails
- other days — 2 emails
- sisters — 2 emails
Intervals between Strong Bad Emails
Strong Bad Emails are released at varying frequencies. The graph on the right shows the number of days in between the release of an email. Here is a summary of the data:
- Mean: 11.45 days
- Median: 7 days
- Mode: 7 days — 69 emails came out 7 days after the previous release
- Minimum: 1 day — There was 1 day between the releases of retirement A and retirement B.
- Maximum: 71 days — There were 71 days between the releases of halloweener and brianrietta
Note: Data are not complete. Reliable dates are not available for homsar, butt IQ, homestar hair, making out, and depressio. These data are as of October 4, 2006.
Other information
- 41% of all emails have no location given; 2% have no return sender at all.
- The average email is 1.81 sentences long; the average cartoon is 152.82 seconds long.
- The Brothers Chaps most frequently choose emails with sender names starting with J or S. Together these senders make up a whopping 26.75% of all emails. This may be an indicator of popular names in the world, not an indication of TBC preference.
- Only 18% of all emails are longer than two sentences. Only one email longer than four sentences has ever been used.
- There are six substantiated claims of Strong Bad answering an email from a wiki or wiki forum user. These emails are montage (sent by Porplemontage), animal (sent by Kerrek slaya), portrait (sent by NachoMan), space program (sent by Ryan Sturmer), cliffhangers (sent by Cessna Man!), and underlings (sent by PlasticDiverGuy).
External links
- View the data (Excel Spreadsheet) 45KB, current as of 19 August 2005.
- View the data as a web page current as of 15 January 2007.
