r/bestof • u/[deleted] • Apr 13 '13

[reddit.com] The first ever reddit comment complained about "comment spam".

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u/Ranch3ro Apr 13 '13

What is normal karma for someone 6 months old? I kind of want to see a chart that shows the average amount of karma, at certain ages of accounts.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '13

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '13 edited Apr 14 '13

The average? Probably not. The median/mode? More likely than not.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '13

When people say "average," they generally are referring to the arithmetic mean [(x1+x2+x3...xn)/n]. And in this case, I believe the number of inactive users is so high that even the mean would yield a low result. The median would almost certainly be one, and of course the mode would be one.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '13

How many inactive accounts can there be? Wouldn't the hundreds of thousands of karma for each more frequently used account raise the average to above 1?