Unscientific survey


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Posted by Robert Dilley on July 20, 1999 at 22:31:57 from geog-rc2006f.lakeheadu.ca:

Tarboarders may be interested in some incidental data I just came up with. I have been making up questions on the AR canon for possible use at the Ontario Corrobooree this coming weekend, and I ended up compiling 48 on each of the 12 books: 576 in all. Just for fun, I then wordsearched to see how often the principal names appeared in the questions (and answers) (and being careful to distinguish uses such as "a roger" for the Broads squalls).
The results were:
65 Titty
59 Roger
52 Nancy
47 Captain Flint
38 John
28 Peggy
23 Susan

These numbers may partly reflect my own perceptions of who is interesting (and Titty's predominance reflects the fact that she usually thinks up names for things and places). If I get the energy, I'll go on to some of the other names.




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