Men of ChiefDelphi: Unite!

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Men of ChiefDelphi: Unite!
A Study of the Relative Popularity of Sexes' Pictures Based on Chief Delphi 'Who Am I' Gallery View Numbers
or
Between Studying for AP’s, Preparing for the SAT I’s and SAT II’s, Starting That Whole College-Search Dealie, Getting Less than Five Hours of Sleep a Night, and Regular Classes, I’m Feeling Kinda Burned Out Right Now

By Daniel Lopuch, Team 810
ChiefDelphi: SuperDanman e-mail: dlopuch@optonline.net


Abstract
While looking through the ChiefDelphi “Who Am I” image gallery, I began to notice that pictures of females seemed to have considerably more views than pictures of males. Viewing the gallery with pictures sorted by number of views proved this conclusion to be true. Graphing this data revealed an interesting relationship: as the rank of the picture decreased, the number of views decreased exponentially. Although there were more pictures of males in my data-set, female pictures had a clear majority in terms of the number of views. Pictures with female subjects dominated the Top 90 most-viewed pictures. However, this relationship switched and remained switched starting in the Top 100 most-viewed pictures. At this Rank Group, pictures with male subjects began to gain the majority in terms of number of views. In conclusion, although there are only 7.8% more pictures of males in my data-set than females, there is a clearly unequal distribution of wealth (defined as the number of views each sex receives) with females’ pictures receiving the majority of ChiefDelphi readers’ bandwidth.

Procedure
Viewing the ChiefDelphi “Who Am I” gallery sorted by number of views is an easy process. All one has to do is select the appropriate options (link ). With the gallery loaded, I began the process of copying the number of views each picture received and whether the picture was of a female or a male into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (attached). Because it was by hand and eye and because the process is a very repetitive and unexciting chore, I would not be surprised if I found one or two errors in the data sheet (i.e. my tired eyes may have mistaken a male for a female or vise versa). Once I reached my picture, I decided that if I got as far as my picture, I would have enough data for an accurate representation. In total, data for 127 pictures was collected.
Armed with all of the necessary data, I began to learn about the wonders of Excel formulas for the first time. Nobody wants to count and add all those view numbers and boy/girl counts and calculate percentages by hand; that’s what computers are for! Through the wonders of =COUNTIF(), I calculated the number of boys and the number of girls for the Top 10 through the Top 140 Rank Groups along with their respective percentages. In addition, the percent difference between the number of girls and the number of boys in a specific category was calculated using the formula: % Difference = (#girls - #boys) / (#girls + #boys)


Results
Figure 1 shows the number of views each ranked picture received.

Figure 1

What is instantly noticeable is as a picture becomes less wealthy (defined as the number of views it has logged), its wealth decreases exponentially. This creates a class of extremely wealthy pictures at the top of the scale and relatively poor pictures at the bottom of the scale. Starting at the 25th-wealthiest picture, the difference in wealth becomes more or less stabilized. It can be said that pictures ranked 25-127 belong to the same ‘class’ of pictures. When one adds up all the wealth (votes) and compares the amount of wealth the rich pictures have to the amount of wealth the poor pictures have, you will see that the top 19% pictures (pictures ranked 1-24) contain a disproportionate amount of the total wealth – almost 40% (28650 out of 79435 total views). Thus, it appears that the readers of ChiefDelphi are divided into at least two distinct classes.
An analysis of the Upper Class reveals further divisions. In two places, there is a split of 150 to 200 views, dividing the Upper Class into three Upper Classes (figure 2).

Figure 2

Interestingly, the three Upper Classes (dubbed the “Elite,” the “Bourgeoisie,” and the “Borderline”) are all dominated by female-subjected pictures, while female-subjected pictures are a minority in the Lower Class (dubbed “The Proletariat”). Another interesting phenomenon is the occurrence of the “Queen,” or, the fact that Melissa’s picture (ChiefDelphi: Yearbook50) occurs twice within the 6 wealthiest pictures. Thus, she is a member of both the exclusive Elite (a total of only four members) and the exclusive Bourgeoisie (a total of only 5 members) with an average number of 1589 views per picture (or more than 2.5 times the average: 621 views per picture).