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Way cool, Tom!

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Saturday, 18 December 2010, at 10:27 p.m.

In Response To: Popularity of Backgammon 1920-2008 (Tom Keith)

I saw a segment on this last night on the national news. I didn't even think about BG.

What are the units for the vertical axis? Is this effectively measuring per-capita interest?

Presumably this is from English language publications only. There might be a bias in the last plot due to BG's popularity in parts of the world where English isn't the native language.

Did poker peak in the 40's because men were isolated/grouped during WWII?

One other observation -- it looks like the peaks for BG are delayed a bit from the accepted timeframes. I wonder if this is a systematic bias -- i.e. books actually lag the activity.

Messages In This Thread

• Popularity of Backgammon 1920-2008
  Tom Keith -- Saturday, 18 December 2010, at 9:37 p.m.
  • Way cool, Tom!
    Chuck Bower -- Saturday, 18 December 2010, at 10:27 p.m.
    • Way cool, Tom!
      Daniel Murphy -- Saturday, 18 December 2010, at 10:40 p.m.
      • Way cool, Tom!
        nori -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 6:19 p.m.
  • Popularity of Backgammon,Nard,Tabula 1560-2008
    Michael Petch -- Saturday, 18 December 2010, at 11:40 p.m.
    • Before Stick gets on the time machine
      Chuck Bower -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 12:09 a.m.
  • Popularity of Backgammon 1920-2008
    garyo -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 3:04 p.m.
    • Popularity of Backgammon 1920-2008
      Tom Keith -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 3:27 p.m.
      • How do we interpret these?
        Chuck Bower -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 4:31 p.m.
        • How do we interpret these?
          Stick -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 4:41 p.m.
          • How do we interpret these?
            Tom Keith -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 5:08 p.m.
            • Go, Chuck! *NM*
              Daniel Murphy -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 5:18 p.m.
          • How do we interpret these?
            Michael Petch -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 5:47 p.m.
        • How do we interpret these?
          Daniel Murphy -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 6:08 p.m.
      • Interpreting the last three graphs
        mamabear -- Sunday, 19 December 2010, at 4:43 p.m.
      • Popularity of Backgammon 1920-2008
        Joe Russell -- Monday, 20 December 2010, at 10:03 a.m.
        • Popularity of Backgammon 1920-2008
          Joe Russell -- Monday, 20 December 2010, at 10:08 a.m.
          • Backgammon video game
            mtuhtan -- Monday, 20 December 2010, at 11:36 a.m.
        • Popularity of Backgammon 1920-2008
          Daniel Murphy -- Monday, 20 December 2010, at 1:48 p.m.
        • pour me one!
          Chuck Bower -- Monday, 20 December 2010, at 6:36 p.m.