Cimorene

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Please click for the bigger version. This is based on data taken from two polls performed by thefourthvine, with the data in my tables taken out on 22 Feb 2009.

This plot follows the same format as my earlier graph here, which, of course, did not have any Science behind it, only me squinting at the screen and placing the dots by the seat of my pants. I've reversed the axes in this one, however, so that better-written canons are at the top of the graph and gayer ones to the right this time. I prefer placing slashiness and quality on the two axes so that there's one data point per show and one show per data point, which lets the interaction be more easily seen.

(ETA: The clearest example of skewing I see on the plot is Highlander. LOTR might be skewed, too, by people's childhood memories or something, I guess. But Highlander? Look at it! IT HAS THE SAME QUALITY SCORE AS SGA. I'm pretty sure that it's not just my personal... weirdness, or whatever, that wants to ROFL at that. SGA is bad, but it's not that bad.)

It should be noted that mean is only one measure of central tendency and, at these sample sizes - which is to say they're all rather small but they vary from fandom to fandom - it's important to look at the others as well. To that end, here is the table I used to generate the graph:


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Median and mode (ie, the most popular rating) are just as interesting as mean in their own ways. Scanning down the standard deviation columns, a few of those numbers will jump out as extremely large, representing a much higher degree of disagreement on the rating in question: the slashiness of Supernatural (no surprise where the primary pairing is incest) and the quality of Merlin (I'm kind of at a loss for this one but there it is), for example.

It's well worth checking out the results in the two posts of thefourthvine's where I took the data because you can easily see the bell curves for some questions, and distinguish others where the distribution shows much higher or lower consensus. (The Science of Slashiness & Moar Science!)

Having three goatskin rugs in the house is somewhat like having three long-haired cats, though not quite as bad: we keep pulling goat hairs off our clothes and food. Yay.

Also, Gerard is no longer engaged according to a Norwegian article wax dug up here which is kind of criminally cute overall (and there are pictures of Gerard with Billy Tallent (well, just the singer) and a Norwegian chick there). I really feel sorry for the reporter who accidentally put her foot in that, though. She uses the word "painful" twice about the experience.

Also also, Frank totally groped Gerard's ass at the Helsinki concert last night that shiroi_chi went to. (I wouldn't have posted this before she has, but then I realised she's already called everyone who's on both of our friendslists who could possibly care, so whatevs.) She didn't catch it on film, though, and recounts that hardly anyone except her shrieked with joy, so now we must cross our fingers that someone has obtained photographic evidence.

ETA Doctor Who casting spoilers for series 4

John Simm as The Master in Doctor Who: can the screen handle that much cuteness? I mean, picture John Simm and David Tennant glaring at each other. Like angry... thin, pointy, wee things¹!


1. This simile may have been "angry kittens" in version 1.

so. where's the really awesome teamslutfic for torchwood?

( veronica mars )

alan tudyk was on csi! ♥♥♥ ( csi )

kirsten vangsness is a regular on criminal minds as of season 2, so can she please have some more screentime? i'm just saying, it would make me so happy. ( criminal minds )

( torchwood )

csi new york was eh. also, i'm seriously disappointed to learn that mac consumes vending machine cupcakes, because ew.

it snowed practically all day and all night. i want to take pictures, but i'm too lazy to go back outside by myself, and wax is very very busy knitting me a sweater vest. so perhaps we'll watch something instead.

bookshop and kessie, and several other people like bibliotech that i've also had conversations with about this, our lucky day is here: makesmewannadie, reccer extraordinaire and my absolute favourite source of cannibalised recs, has started reading doctor who and has just posted her first set of recs, 9th and 10th doctors both, mostly gen. i haven't read any of them yet though.

spring has, apparently, sprung. mini daffodils are in bloom just in time for easter, there's only snow on about a quarter of the exposed grass mud, and yesterday i bought a bikini. i'm so used to winter i have a hard time remembering not to wear extra layers, so i keep being overdressed on my walks; if there were a good way to take off a sweater and long underwear without removing your pants and jacket i'd've been on it in a flash today. meanwhile i've been reading old scripts hollsk sent me and laughing myself to tears. "well it's not that fucking lucky! it didn't prevent you from driving a fire truck through the wall!" those were the days.

in other news, i need more prince of tennis-related interaction. it helps me write. although really, it's disgraceful that i'd need help to write a pointless drabble. i've gotten quite rusty, what with being hung up forever on that sga harlequin. i don't think i'm ever going to post it. i may finish it someday, though, and change all the names around and try to do something with it as an original novel. i may feel differently after they start airing the new season next summer.

ps. new doctor who starting saturday!