2009/8/20 Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com:
I am supposed to be taking a wiki-vacation to finish my PhD thesis and find a job for next year. However, this afternoon I decided to take a break and consider an interesting question recently suggested to me by someone else: [snip]
That's an interesting bit of research, but, as you say, it is very crude. This study seems to have a better methodology, although it has a much smaller sample:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aetheling/Vandalism_survival
If we could do that survey again with a large sample, it would be very interesting indeed.