Rate Your FishTank
 

I posted a pic on this website where people can rate your fishtank (in my case, a reef tank).

http://www.ratemyfishtank.com/toplist.php?ut=1

As an experiment, I set my location to Canada for the first week and I averaged 6.2. Then, I changed my location to USA and now my total average is 7.27 meaning that after I changed my location, the new votes were around 8.2 making my overall average 7.27. So, by simply having a Canadian location, I was getting 20% lower marks. I realize that the sample size is too small to make any conclusions but it was just an experiment that I thought was interesting. Feel free to post your pics for fun.

We can test this. How many votes did you get when you were "Canadian" and how many now that you're "American"? I have the significance charts in a textbook. :razz:

Its was about half/half. 9 and 9, I believe.

My very first vote was a 10 (from webmaster I'm guessing) so the next 8 votes dropped me to 6.2 average (after 9 votes).

Then after changing to US, the next 9 raised me to 7.277 average.

Nevermind, I just remembered you can't calculate significance without having all the scores. Oh well, as you said, sample is far too small to take as meaningful.