ChaCha Query Wait Time

Remember when ChaCha sent out this email?



Well, while working on the Earnings Exporter today... I was thinking, "I have all this data... Lets see if I can test to see if its true"

So I went ahead and took all my data from the last month or so (Jan 5 to Feb 11, approximately 1130 data points), and looked how the hour of the day correlated with the time you had to wait to receive a query.

You may ask, how did I manage to have the wait time data? Well of course, this is an estimate. I took the time of a question and subtracted it with the time of the last question + the question answer length.

So for example, if I answered the following two questions:

2/11/2009		16:21		Generalist	When is the next prelicensing course ...	2:08
2/11/2009		16:17		Generalist	Is it possible to get a girl pregnant...	1:19

the time of wait for the first question would be approximately 2 minutes and 41 seconds.

Of course, this is only an estimate as ChaCha times in the 2nd column do not include the time to the number of seconds. I had to also make sure the dates were the same, and that extremes were taken out (if you were to take a 1 hour break answering questions).

Charting the data gave me interesting results. (ChaCha WAS telling the truth. The busiest time is around 7-9PM EST)



You may notice that my general sleeping hours are from 3AM - 9AM EST (I'm in the West Coast), and that somehow I didn't do any questions from 8:00 PM - 8:59 PM EST in a month.

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