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Discussion in 'Break Room' started by Simon Spooner, Jul 2, 2011.


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    Just realised I passed the 5000 posts mark. Note to self: get a life.:drinks
     
  2. And Im on the way to the 3rd floor milestone myself.
     
  3. Glad to see that you are out in front, having passed me some time ago....takes the heat off of me....oh....and by the way.....get a life!:drinks
     
  4. admin

    admin Administrator Staff Member

  5. Not really out in front, the "bot" brothers knock spots off us other obsessive compulsives. Anyway, Weber is catching up.:morning::cool:
     
  6. RobinP

    RobinP Well-Known Member

    Oh dear.

    Thank the lord my wife just closes any Podiatry Arena webpage she finds open rather than reading it. I think I would have a hard time explaining why only 2 real people posted more on podiatry arena than me last month.

    That's my last post this month - I'm rationing myself..........alright maybe a couple more.
     
  7. Weber has it worse than any of us. Rate wise at least.

    Nice project for your students craig. Feed the data into a standard distribution curve, work out the standard deviations from the mean and tell us what the post limit is to stay in the "normal" range of posting rate.
     
  8. You're above the standard deviation. Which makes you a deviant. Don't worry though, since Robins' patients class us all as deviants, simply because we're not from the Isle of Man...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaqGcWU7IzU

    Yes.

    Yes.


    Yes.








    Yes.

























    Do you like liver?



















    Do you like bacon?
















    Do you like liver and bacon?
















    Then come and see my collection at the Isle of Man...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK0lUPsZvXA

    You can't beat the isolation of a small island for experiments in in-breeding.

    Welcome to Great Britain.


    Yes.




    Yes...



    Did you tell them about the deviants?



    Yes.
     
  9. Catching up to some being left behindby others;)
     
  10. If I was any more of a geek, it would hurt.

    For the overall figures I make the mean 606 and the Standard deviation 871. Now to the graph...
     
  11. Really.......?

    No, I mean, really?


    Can I suggest pornography?
     
  12. In a minute simon. I'm installing the stats addin on excel so I can generate a histogram!!
     
  13. RobinP

    RobinP Well-Known Member

    The really depressing thing is, when I looked, all the names above mine are people that are really quite good and accomplished at this whole biomechanics caper. I'm just a wannabie

    Oh my god.....I'm a groupie!
     
  14. That's not depressing, the really depressing ting is Zigazig ah
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ
     
  15. Quite tricky to do. Its a long way from a normal distribution.

    [​IMG]

    Best I can do. Data bins of 30 and a cut off at 1200. If I understand how SDevs work that means that normal people are 1 SD from the mean. If the mean is 606 and the SD is 871 would that mean that the cutoff point for deviants is 1477 posts?

    Apart from the obvious wierdness, is my maths right simon? This is sort of me having a practice.
     
  16. Oh and to save anyone else pointing it out...
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  17. I have no idea if this is right since I have no idea what you have done, nor what you are trying to do. To define the frequency histogram for number of posts per member what you need to do is take each and every member of podiatry arena and plot the number of posts per individual, this will enable you to calculate a mean number of posts per member, the variance, standard deviation etc

    Why you would want to spend your time doing this and not adding to the advance of podiatric biomechanics, given your obvious potential, is beyond me. Get the hint?

    Time to use your talent in a meaningful way, Robert... And that's not necessarily in Podiatry Now, nor here.
     
  18. Just for fun?
     
  19. Use your talent. Statistics probably isn't one of them, right now.

    P.S. the mean posts per member will probably be somewhere near zero. Viz. You're a deviant. Live with it.
     
  20. Griff

    Griff Moderator

    Agreed.

    18,663 members and the 100th most prolific poster only has 113 posts. Mean (and mode) is far far closer to zero than it is to 606.

    Yours sincerely,

    Another deviant.
     
  21. Like Simon said some time ago....it's not the number of posts that count....it's the quality that matters most. Personally, I would like to see many more academic discussions going on here on Podiatry Arena that are meaningful to us as scientists, clinicians and researchers. How about placing more emphasis on the educational quality of posts rather than the number....I think that would greatly help the overall "feel" of Podiatry Arena, which seems to me, unfortunately at times, like a discussion between four or five guys sitting at the bar having drinks, rather than the academic forum for the exchange of clinically useful information for medical professionals that it was meant to be.

    Craig, is there any way a type of way you could put an "Academic Excellence Rating System" for each post or maybe for each thread so that, as time goes on, the threads and/or posts with the most clinically and scientifically useful information could be accessed so that we wouldn't have to read every post on every thread to find the really good ones here? Maybe this type of "Academic Excellence Rating System" would encourage more academic posts here on Podiatry Arena?
     
  22. admin

    admin Administrator Staff Member

    Yes, there is a plugin I could use on the software that allows other posters to add to or take away from a poster "reputation" (or whatever we choose to call it), but my experience with it on other forums is that it just gets abused and many of them remove it.

    We do that the "thanks" button at the bottom of each post that I would encourage more to use. For eg, you have been thanked 677 Times in 436 Posts and Simon has been thanked 433 Times in 328 Posts. Simon has two thanks for his first post in this thread (one from me and one from Davinci).
     
  23. RobinP

    RobinP Well-Known Member

    I'm probably in the minority here, but part of what I like about podiatry arena is that it is quite good fun and not too serious. It certainly made her come back in the earlier days.

    I would agree, however that the more frivolous discussions should be raised in the trivia and break room forums. Or if a thread its going thatway that it stops and gets raised as a thread in the break room.

    The only people I generally have social interaction with are patients and my wife and kids. my kids are too young for StarWars/biomechanics/stand up comedy and my wife likes them about as much as she likes podiatry arena or golf. I need an outlet.
     
  24. sigh. Yes, I know that. I was working of the data for the top 98 which craig posted.
     
  25. Rob,

    Your handy. Build a jig to measure co-efficent of friction- here's a flash version http://www.testingmachines.com/32-25-coefficient-friction-tester.html but I reckon you could make something with a car jack and some MDF/ perspex sheet. Use different top-cover materials with various socks (wet and dry). This will be a fairly easy experiment that will add some useful information.


    Anyone?
     
  26. I for one would miss your travel photos.

    While there needs to be a balance too academic and a lot of people will be too scared to post. Some of the relaxed nature gives people a chance to become part of it and learn.

    Imo
     
  27. I could do that.
     
  28. I know. That's my point. Give me a bell or drop me an e-mail and we can talk through the clinical implications of it, the write up and submission of the paper.
     
  29. blinda

    blinda MVP

    Agreed. I have quite a few colleagues who will only `lurk` around the arena (not just my stalkers ;)) as they feel inadequate, or foolish, to post. I view the arena as an on-line conference; great academic discussion to whet the appetite for further research with the odd tea break to chat/banter with colleagues.

    Just my view:drinks
    Bel
     
  30. So, that's Robeer sorted with a project. Now Robin, about this social interaction problem... Lets take a prefabricated device and cover with different top-covers. Lets say we use two varieties of top-cover, one with a low co-efficient of friction, one with a relatively high co-efficient of friction. The geometry of the devices is the same, the load/ deformation characteristics will be pretty much the same if we use thin splits of the top-cover material, the only real differences will be in frictional and thermal conductivity properties. Walk 'em and/ or run the subjects with the two different top-covers in-situ. Measure in-shoe pressures at foot-orthosis interface- you got in-shoe pressure sensing? Differences should be due to frictional characteristics (or thermal).

    Equipped and up for it (locked and loaded)?

    Remember the foot orthosis consensus project? Yeah...........We're stealing it back.
     
  31. Some of the best discussions and ideas I've ever had were at a bar with some guys. The structure of DNA was pretty much discovered and resolved in an English pub. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_and_Crick Long live bar talk and the British Pub.
     
  32. I got a Rolls Royce, cause it good for my voice.... but you won't fool.......
    Tune.

    Obviously: "This is a song Charles Manson, stole from The Beatles....." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLmqjcYtH3c "when you get to the bottom of the slide, you go back to the top".
    C'mon then Mr Isaacs, lets be havin' you.
    "might be a lover, but you ain't no dancer"
     
  33. RobinP

    RobinP Well-Known Member

    Definitely my favorite U2 album and a great song.

    Simon, don't have in shoe pressure stuff. I'll PM you about thoughts on ways I can contribute. If I can manage not to fall asleep putting the kids to bed.
     
  34. Mike:

    I'm not saying getting rid of the "fluff" on Podiatry Arena, because I enjoy these posts also.....some times.

    What I am saying is that it would be nice to find a way to encourage contributors to put up more thoughtful and clinically helpful posts here on Podiatry Arena by developing a rating system that would then allow us, as time goes on, to find these really helpful posts on Podiatry Arena, rather than being buried deep within the archives (which are becoming so large now that it is quite difficult to locate individual posts even now).

    In other words, how does one find the diamonds within the Podiatry Arena archives "rough" unless there is some type of rating system or "best threads" or "best posts" section to Podiatry Arena?? How can this be accomplished so that much of this useful information can be brought out again so that the newcomers can easily find and read some of the more useful posts and threads here on Podiatry Arena?
     
  35. I've already got a button which says "rate this thread". But then "excellent" is in the eye of the beholder.
     
  36. Started a thread - New Members interest in Biomechancis - where to start
     
  37. blinda

    blinda MVP


    :mad: It aint all about biomechanics, you know! Granted, it is the majority, but let`s not forget other pathological interests of the lower limb.

    PS Good choice of song of the week, BTW
     

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