EK Peerages, a slight analysis

[fosveny]

Apparently due to a conversation on the EK general discussion list (which I am not on), scaharp posted some counts of elevations-per-half-decade in the East kingdom for each of the peerages. I grok graphs and stats some, and I wanted to break it down by years.

This is pretty much a copy-and-paste from a comment I made in her livejournal:

Comments

[fosveny]

No, but it would be simple. Do you want just the total # ever elevated by the East, or a running, year-by-year total?

[fosveny]

The East has made: 254 pelicans, 294 laurels, and 177 chivalry.

[ursule]

For comparison, since becoming a kingdom An Tir has made 201 pelicans, 197 laurels, and 143 knights. (I'm giving you the numbers for An Tir rather than Caid because they're easy to pull up from the An Tir OP at http://op.antirheralds.org/index.php .)

[fosveny]

That's "made" and not "made or moved in and lived here for a time", right?

[ursule]

Yes: that's an easy restriction to make with An Tir's OP.

[fosveny]

My initial thought on that is "why?"

My second is to think that you would want to simply eliminate all but the first peerage for any given person.

...but they're probably close enough. There aren't *that* many doubles or triples.

[mariedeblois]

Or the East really fosters the Arts and Sciences like mad and so more folks are worthy.

Or the East's artists and scientists are the most pushy about writing award recs.

Or a whole lot of other possibilities.

[bunnyjadwiga]

So does that mean they made a lot of knights early on?