HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TO BURNINGMAN?
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TO BURNINGMAN?
what is the more or less official statistic on this one?
im referring to the sum total over the event"s entire history.
cant count the same person twice.
there were about 30,000 people last year
has there been a consistent ration of returnees to newbies and what is that?
i think about 3/4 of all burners have been before--but there may be no way to know this stat and it changes from year to year
my estimate is that there are only about 100,000 burners in the world, which is not that much---much less than a large scale rock festival, or even a big game at the rose bowl...
but i dont know
what do you think and if you know for real--please tell
im referring to the sum total over the event"s entire history.
cant count the same person twice.
there were about 30,000 people last year
has there been a consistent ration of returnees to newbies and what is that?
i think about 3/4 of all burners have been before--but there may be no way to know this stat and it changes from year to year
my estimate is that there are only about 100,000 burners in the world, which is not that much---much less than a large scale rock festival, or even a big game at the rose bowl...
but i dont know
what do you think and if you know for real--please tell
>>there may be no way to know this stat and it changes from year to year
OH YEAH - THIS IS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS ALWAYS ASKED BY THE BRMOS, WHICH IS WHERE I REMEMBERED THE NUMBERS FROM. LOOKING AT THEIR ARCHIVES, IT SEEMS TO BE CONSISTANTLY BETWEEN 45-55%.
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~mos/
OH YEAH - THIS IS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS ALWAYS ASKED BY THE BRMOS, WHICH IS WHERE I REMEMBERED THE NUMBERS FROM. LOOKING AT THEIR ARCHIVES, IT SEEMS TO BE CONSISTANTLY BETWEEN 45-55%.
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~mos/
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Estimated attendance: http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/about_burningman/bm_timeline.html
MOS' sampling is said to have been biased toward first-year attendees.
Burning Man's own survey in 2001 presented results which I can only describe as irreproducible.

MOS' sampling is said to have been biased toward first-year attendees.
Burning Man's own survey in 2001 presented results which I can only describe as irreproducible.


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Burning Man's own survey in 2001 presented results which I can only describe as irreproducible.
What am I missing here? What is irreproducible about the 2001 data? Jafe
Burning Man's own survey in 2001 presented results which I can only describe as irreproducible.
What am I missing here? What is irreproducible about the 2001 data? Jafe
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how many burners on the head of a pin?
Using the chart and assuming everyone goes back every year, you can estimate how many newbies there are each year. Add the newbie numbers and the first year together you get about 30,000. Of course the logic is faulty, some folks never go back and others skip years. The biggest single jump in numbers was from 1998 to 1999, I got 9,100 alleged newbies counted that year. It falls off sharply after that, even by percetage of growth figures.
My math skills are horrible, so fire away.
what year did the website begin? has on-line access changed attendance? I know that's how I found out about burning man, had never knowingly met a burner prior to showing up at the front gate.
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My math skills are horrible, so fire away.
what year did the website begin? has on-line access changed attendance? I know that's how I found out about burning man, had never knowingly met a burner prior to showing up at the front gate.
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Re: how many burners on the head of a pin?
AntiM wrote:....My math skills are horrible, so fire away.
Don't confuse math with statistics.
....what year did the website begin?....
Archive of the current domain:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.burningman.com
Previous websites don't seem to be cached.
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stat!
Righto ... my statistics skills are even worse than my math skills. And I supposedly have studied statistics. Struggled through a poorly taught course more like ...
Given the raw data on attendance, one could make many different claims. I've always feared "raw data."
Simply: there are more burning man attendees now than there were in the past. I think that is accurate.
wishy-washily,
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Given the raw data on attendance, one could make many different claims. I've always feared "raw data."
Simply: there are more burning man attendees now than there were in the past. I think that is accurate.
wishy-washily,
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Re: stat!
And with today's modern E coli who can blame you?AntiM wrote:I've always feared "raw data."
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Burning Man's own survey in 2001 presented results which I can only describe as irreproducible.
So the BLM data and the official website data track pretty closely (although the website data is about 10% lower than BLM). The survey results appear to be completely different. If over-enthusiastic-newbies (OEN's) responded more than jaded old timers (JOT's), a reasonable theory proposed by others, then this would explain the results. I know I filled out the survey my first year, but ignored it all on later years.
regards, Jafe
So the BLM data and the official website data track pretty closely (although the website data is about 10% lower than BLM). The survey results appear to be completely different. If over-enthusiastic-newbies (OEN's) responded more than jaded old timers (JOT's), a reasonable theory proposed by others, then this would explain the results. I know I filled out the survey my first year, but ignored it all on later years.
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Bob wrote:Burning Man's own survey in 2001 presented results which I can only describe as irreproducible.
Ack. Somehow the intro paragraph for the survey results was left out. There were about 2500 respondents as I recollect, which would make the first chart understandable.
The second one just plain bites, tho. We did a much better job with the 2003 Census, which will be published with the 2003 AfterBurn very soon.
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It's all rather complex.
Nobody really kept track before '97 or '98, which is why in the Timeline on the main website you see very round numbers suddenly changing to five sig figs.
Results from MOS were biased toward newbie responses, and I'd imagine BM's results would have been biased toward newbies, staff & their friends, and people who read the JRS more closely than others, leaving out people less interested in official activities or joining in survey responses.
The best estimates could probably be derived from comparing ticket & mailing list records from year to year, and checking against the "official" Gate/helicopter census and a small-scale, more representative survey on the playa. Part of the mission of a BM survey is feedback from those interested in giving it, which is a bias in itself. But I'm neither a statistician nor a PR flack, so I'm probably talking out of my ass.
Nobody really kept track before '97 or '98, which is why in the Timeline on the main website you see very round numbers suddenly changing to five sig figs.
Results from MOS were biased toward newbie responses, and I'd imagine BM's results would have been biased toward newbies, staff & their friends, and people who read the JRS more closely than others, leaving out people less interested in official activities or joining in survey responses.
The best estimates could probably be derived from comparing ticket & mailing list records from year to year, and checking against the "official" Gate/helicopter census and a small-scale, more representative survey on the playa. Part of the mission of a BM survey is feedback from those interested in giving it, which is a bias in itself. But I'm neither a statistician nor a PR flack, so I'm probably talking out of my ass.
Amazing desert structures & stuff: http://sites.google.com/site/potatotrap/
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