Lies, damned lies, and statistics, part III.
This graph is based on data for the 770 broadcast TV anime that AniDB lists as both starting and ending between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2014, inclusive. Lest you think I’m exaggerating with the title of this post, the correlation coefficient for that linear regression line is 0.0107. Existent, I guess.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics, part II.
This graph covers only anime with a regular TV airing, as defined by AniDB, from which I pulled all of this data. Series are indexed by the date of their premiere, naively sorted into season buckets in blocks of three calendar months.
Oreimo aired in autumn 2010. Indeed, autumn has a pattern of having longer titles in most years. What does that, or anything else about this graph, tell us? You tell me.
Mean AniDB rating of all 303 television anime that both began and ended between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2012: 4.97 ± 1.83.
Mean AniDB rating for the seven series out of the above whose titles contain the Japanese pronoun boku: 5.63 ± 1.82.