How many inactive hubbers are there?
You can estimate.
There are over 212,000 Hubbers. There have been 631 Hubs published the past 24 hours. Assume this is a representative day. We're looking at about 1900 new Hubs per month.
If they were distributed evenly, that would be about 1% of Hubbers publish at least one Hub per month.
Pareto's principle says 20% of the Hubbers will publish 80% of the Hubs, though. This means that about 1500 of those Hubs will belong to a smaller group of more active Hubbers, and only 360 Hubs will remain amongst the less active majority, meaning it is well under 1% who publish at least one Hub in a month.
Even if you define "Active" as one Hub a year (so as to include Misha
), with the 80/20 rule in play we're still talking about less than 10% of Hubbers meeting that looser definition of "Active".
Either way you slice it, that's a very small number of published Hubs across a very large number of HubPages accounts.
JennyThere are 10 authors per page, so if you go to the last page of the latest author list you will discover that there are about 21,500 published authors, and if you go to the last page of the latest hub list you'll find out that there are about 107,000 published hubs. If you go the main forum page you'll see that there are 212,000 users signed up. So from that, about 10% currently have a published hub.
It seems that Jenny got pretty close using pareto's principle (except that I think she meant 19,000 new hubs a month, not 1900). A lot of people sign up, and never publish anything (and some publish a lot, and quickly get banned
).- Marye Audetposted 15 years ago
0Jenny-will you come teach math at my house?
Most of them never publish at all. Right now, I have 50 sign-ups under my trackers. Of those, 14 hubbers have actually published a hub. Of those 14 hubbers, 8 of them did one hub each and that's it. The majority of the 127 hubs published were built by two hubbers who have 56 and 42 hubs, respectively. Everyone else is a deadbeat
Quoting from Wikipedia:
"The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, 80% of the effects comes from 20% of the causes. Business management thinker Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of income in Italy went to 20% of the population. It is a common rule of thumb in business; e.g., "80% of your sales comes from 20% of your clients."
So its not a Southern Hemisphere thing - It's Italian in origin. You learn something new every day (on HubPages!)
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Believe it or not
More than 1100 hubs of one of my referrals were removed by the mods!
I am sad and happy at the same time!
Best RegardsIt's called spam.
LOL - I am sure he/she did. Oh well, easy come.......
He is posting again in big quantities
Did he get the lesson?Teacher Michelle (ripplemaker) and I often talk about that and she expressed that she feels the same way. Could it have something to do with English being our second language? Composing articles in English requires effort since we don't "think" in English. We need to translate everything (unconsciously or sometimes we struggle to find the right words) into English before the thought in the brain becomes words on the page.
Sometimes the words flow and sometimes we hit a brick wall.Uh, because it's very difficult to spell the words? Hehe.
Seriously though, we have no literary ability whatsoever when writing in our native dialect. I've tried reading a local dialect newspaper and decoding all those words gave me a headache each time. We've never been trained to write and read in our local dialect, we just speak it.
(By the way, the Philippines has many dialects, and unlike the United States where there's one language (English) spoken with different accents, our country has several different dialects that sound as Greek as Greek to those who don't speak it.)
Thanks for the suggestion though, Jimmy.
You made me remember the "translation jokes" we have. Sentence construction between our two languages is so different that it sounds really funny when translated literally sometimes. Hey, maybe I can compile a list of those funny English translations and write a hub about it... *lightbulb coming on.
(Something's wrong with the formatting of the boxes my posts are in. Did I accidentally press something?)You're right, gspyda.
There are many subjects on the planet but only so much that we can honestly say we know enough of to write an article on. I am wary about writing something that I just researched through the internet (unless I've proven for myself that it's accurate and the proving takes time and experience) for fear that I may have gathered the wrong information.
Now if only I were more opinionated... Hehe.
Think, think, thiiink...
*goes off and sings the Blue's Clues theme.Hahahaha Teacher Susan, we better make a goal of some sort to finish a certain number of hubs at a given period.
I agree with you. Can't write it in our native language and translate it...that would make it worse. Hmmmmm think think think.... zip a dee do dah zip a dee ay
Hey! Tell me Mark. Have you ever had an hair raising experience in life(Just having fun)
Warm RegardsHair raising? I guess I have had a few of those. What do you mean by hair raising though? Scary? Almost died sort of thing?
Of course, I have no hair left to raise....
Everybody has it on their own posts
You just don't see this - cause those posts are not yours...
And welcome to Hugpages!Hi Jenny
Oops, you lost me. Don't joke with ESL
gotcha
No, this was a coincidence.I had tattoo ads on one of my first Hubs, too, but they were gone pretty quickly. Just don't tell the grandkids about the Hub until after the ads come right
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