I know this isn’t a science thread and you’ve essentially already got your answer, but as a neuroscientist, I feel obliged to point out that B is using network/graph analysis, which - while perhaps superficially related to neuroscience - is much more commonly used in analysing social networks than in neuroscience. In fact, I can’t remember seeing these terms in neuroscience at all!
(We do talk about “small world” or “global village” networks once in a while, but it looks like the WK forum is more tightly clustered around a few central nodes than fits either of these descriptions)
I totally knew those two terms before today , I am not lying
Need to look them up They sound like they are oxymorons
I think this could be because of the highly transient nature of users. So the few who stick around guide the newbies and tend to be more active compared to others. Survival Bias.
It’s also in part due to the data itself. Since it’s based on the “Most liked” and “Most liked by” data, you’re naturally going to get a bias towards the larger nodes. I think the full like graph would be interesting, but there’s no easy way to retrieve it in a reasonable amount of time, so it can’t be helped.
There’s also no cost to network traversal: In physical space, be it inside a skull or inside a city, there’s a cost to making long-distance connections. Here, the cheapest way of accessing the network (through the recent topics list) is also the least restrictive, so there’s little structural incentive to form distinct clusters.
Out of curiosity, can anyone find out what the chances are for any given user actually reaching level 60? I saw an old thread that about 22 people reach level 60 in any given month, though I wonder what that translates to percentage wise? .1%? Even less?
Yeah, it’s hard to make any decisive conclusions from the data, but we can at least infer that the free accounts at level 4-59 quit WaniKani for whatever reason (either permanently or just temporarily) since they were once paid accounts - but we have no idea who has quit or not among the paid and lifetime accounts
What happens if your account runs out, can you still do reviews etc on your existing lessons? Can you do more lessons on your current level? Can you just do reviews on content from the free level?
I ask because I could see myself at the point where the year I have paid for is up, and I want to focus on other priorities for a bit but don’t want to lose the progress I’ve made. I wonder whether some of the free level 4+ users are maintaining, rather than off the wagon completely.
Since it’s been a while since we last made a level distribution graph. I went ahead and made a new one. Although the distribution isn’t all that different from last time, we just have more users now. We finally managed to cross 100000 users with the Basic badge on this forum this year
First of all, the basic graph of the total number of users per level, split up into subscription type. I’ve also added a graph with a logarithmic scale to make the drop-off slightly easier to see:
Since the first 3 levels are significantly higher than all other levels. I also made graphs excluding the first 3 levels, so the other levels are slightly easier to see:
, I am not lying 
They sound like they are oxymorons 
