Can you normalize like this? 1523 drafts have "authors" from North America, and so on. If a draft has three authors from North America and two from Europe, is the draft counted five times or two times? swb On 07/15/2006 00:18 AM, Noel Chiappa allegedly wrote: > > From: Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > (Note that since drafts can have multiple authors, the sum of the > > following percentages are more than 100%), > > > # 1523 drafts (73.08%) have authors from North America. > > # 1116 drafts (53.55%) have authors from Europe. > > # 417 drafts (20.01%) have authors from Asia. > > # 33 drafts (1.58%) have authors from Australia. > > # 9 drafts (0.43%) have authors from South America. > > # 3 drafts (0.14%) have authors from Africa. > > # 1 drafts (0.05%) have authors from OTHER. > > Renormalizing percentages so that they sum to 100%, we get: > > 49.09% of authors are from North America. > 35.97% of authors are from Europe. > 13.44% of authors are from Asia. > 1.06% of authors are from Australia > .28% of authors are from South America. > .09% of authors are from Africa. > .03% of authors are from OTHER. > > Sounds like out of every 6 IETF's, one should be in Asia, two in Europe, and > the other three in North America: NA/Europe/NA/Europe/NA/Asia spreads things > out evenly. > > Noel > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf