I was re-reading Distribution of * new * Levels and Writeups and was inspired to do some further explorations from the Overall Stats to get a better sense of the distribution between various levels.

In order to avoid skewing the results, I manually corrected for three outlier "monks":

• Pope Vroom with 1006991 XP from 606 writeups
• Initiate Antivroom with -1002951 XP from 2 writeups
• Friar Nodereaper with 1291 XP from 57005 "writeups" (!!)

The table below shows of these some corrected stats, including distributions of posts and total XP for each level. (Yes, that's right, Archbishop Merlyn accounts for 1% of the total posts and XP for all of Perlmonks.) There's also an interesting pattern of average XP per post across the levels, with the peak coming in the middle-levels.

Perlmonks Statistical Analysis -- 2005-12-03

Title	Level	Population	Posts per Monk	XP per Post	% of Total Posts	% of Total XP
Archbishop	23	1	5577	10.38	1%	1%
Bishop	22	6	4289	10.74	6%	5%
Chancellor	21	6	3395	10.22	5%	4%
Canon	20	8	1941	12.69	3%	4%
Abbot	19	11	1395	13.53	3%	4%
Monsignor	18	18	1169	11.86	5%	5%
Prior	17	29	679	15.59	4%	6%
Parson	16	37	599	13.28	5%	6%
Vicar	15	49	539	11.40	6%	6%
Priest	14	92	334	14.04	7%	8%
Curate	13	164	225	15.21	8%	11%
Deacon	12	87	181	14.55	3%	4%
Chaplain	11	158	142	14.31	5%	6%
Hermit	10	189	113	13.53	5%	6%
Friar	9	275	85	12.93	5%	6%
Pilgrim	8	375	56	13.06	5%	5%
Monk	7	322	44	11.32	3%	3%
Scribe	6	523	27	11.57	3%	3%
Beadle	5	508	19	10.45	2%	2%
Sexton	4	580	12	9.57	2%	1%
Acolyte	3	967	8	8.30	2%	1%
Novice	2	1858	5	6.75	2%	1%
Initiate	1	30823	1	1.04	10%	1%

I've produced a couple graphics that illustrate some of the relationships.

• Writeup and XP Histogram
• XP vs Quality Scatterplot

I draw no conclusions from any of this -- I just like playing with statistics. Among other things, stats like "XP/Post" blend the XP from both writeups and voting, so I admit that referring to that as a "quality" metric is a bit of a misnomer.

Update: As Limbic~Region points out and I mention above, this is not based on per-post statistics. XP/Post is just the ratio of total XP to total number of writeups.

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