User:Cool3/Anon Vandalism

There has always been a debate about vandalism by anonymous editors. On this page, just for the sake of passing a little time, I'm putting together some stats. The shocking conclusion of my study is that anonymous edits are 7,842 times more likely to be vandalism than edits by logged-in users.

Facts from other studies
From WikiProject Vandalism studies/Study1: From my own previous study User:Cool3/Analysis From Wikichecker's edit rate
 * Anonymous editors are responsible for 97% of vandalism
 * 4.6% of all edits are vandalism
 * Anonymous editors are responsible for 87.2% of serious vandalism
 * Generally, edits on Wikipedia average about 8,000 per hour
 * In general, anonymous editors account for roughly 30% of edits; registered users account for 70%.

Basic math

 * 8000 edits per hour*4.6% vandalism = 368 vandalism edits per hour
 * 368 vandalism edits*97% anonymous = 357 anonymous vandalism edits (368*87.2% anonymous = 321 anonymous vandalism edits)
 * 8000 edits * 30% anonymous = 2400 anonymous edits
 * 357/2400 = 14.9% of anonymous edits are vandalism
 * 11/5600 = .0019% of registered edits are vandalism.
 * 14.9/.0019 = 7842. Thus, according to the data here an anonymous edit is 7,842 times more likely to be vandalism.

Pros

 * 1) Anons contribute about 26.8% of all non-vandalism edits
 * 2) About 85% of anon edits are not vandalism
 * 3) All the reasons you've seen everywhere else

Cons

 * 1) Anonymous edits are almost eight thousand times more likely to be vandalism
 * 2) About 15% of all anonymous edits are vandalism
 * 3) All the reasons you've seen everywhere else