In Reply to: Experiment Idea posted by Taekwondo Man on July 10, 2002 at 9:13 PM:
I map all my bills, 98% of which were released in AZ. Most of my hits are concentrated in AZ with another bunch in southern CA. Outside of these 2 areas my hits basically scatter with no other geographical areas.
I wondered if releasing bills in other areas of the country allow bills to travel further faster due to population densities and such.
The idea was to release an equal number of bills in each state (logged in the zipcode where each bill is for tracking bill movement) and see where the bills go.
You may be saying that that is what this website already does with so many members entering and spending bills all over the country. But everyone has different methods of doing it and the stats are spread out over 1.3 million users' stats.
My idea is to do an experiment with a controlled number of bills, all marked basically the same and all spent at about the same time. 5,000 would be enough bills to easily keep track of and still have enough hits over a year to have meaninful results to watch.
Most people on these forums are nice, friendly people who exchange constructive ideas. It's a shame that there's a few who believe they speak for Hank and attempt to enforce Hank's rules how they interpret them. Hank is capable of stepping in and enforcing his own rules.