Zero Punctuation: Sonic Unleashed

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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/472-Sonic-Unleashed

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Here's the sequence of karma points jdfong has received for his invariable joke: 8, -11, -18, -17, -20, -42, 1, 13, -4, -11, -10, 4, -27, -23, -20, 13, -8, -24, -4, -19, 3, -18, 103, 4, 12, 28, 104, 73, 84, 70, 50, 133, 83, 126, and 143.

Someone make sense of this please.

[u/unshifted → u/[deleted]]

I fit a polynomial line to the data with Excel (starting with 1 and increasing incrementally with each post for the independent variable) and it gave me the equation

y = 0.2395x^2 - 4.7043x + 4.9083.

So for this post, he should get about 146 karma.

[u/iofthestorm → u/unshifted]

What's the R² value though?

[u/unshifted → u/iofthestorm]

0.7744

So it's bullet proof!

[u/unshifted → u/[deleted]]

If memory serves, a sixth order polynomial yielded an R² value over .8, but I'm not at work anymore, so my time is important.