The collective mood of LJ

[lushlush]

The World according to LiveJournal aggregates LiveJournal moods and graphs them by the day, over the last 7 days

Comments

[kayleighraven]

This rocks. Huge downward spike in happiness yesterday and oddly, the 3rd to the 5th is a plateau. Very interesting!

[ex_deadmanta171]

There's a note at the bottom of the page that says they were down on the 4th of July ;)

[eevee_gurl]

Shocked went up quite a bit too yesterday.

[eevee_gurl]

Gah! I love this thing.

[brentmj]

Wasn't there an attempt some time ago to skew this thing one day by someone starting a push for many people to post using the mood "quixotic"? Maybe that was a simliar yet different toy.

[flick]

I think that was to get it to the top of the list of most popular moods on the LJ tracker. Which I can't now find, so it may have been taken offline.

[flick]

(That's not terribly clear, is it? by 'LJ mood tracker', I mean 'the page on livejournal.com that tracks mood usage on LJ posts'.)

[decadence1]

Maybe that was a simliar yet different toy.

Yep it was.

[shinedarklight]

Now, a statistician would ask whether or not this sampling pool is diverse enough.

Do LJ-ers represent an accurate cross section of society? Clearly, there will be a bias towards a little wealthier, because internet access is a prereq. but, in terms of personalities, maybe LJ-ers are naturally more melancholy than the typical population? after all, we're a reflective bunch, certainly moreso than the typical MySpace user.

[knullare]

Also, not everyone selects moods. So the sampling pool is even smaller and more select.

[ouwiyaru]

Also, it seems like you should be normalizing on how often people are posting at all. A lot of the graphs seem similar, and my guess is that's just the fluctuations of when people post.