None. My street/road is a county numbered road. 2 counties actually.
I live on a county line.
The road is locally known as my ‘surname’ road.
I have a 911 number assigned to our property. Not the same as a address. It’s first digit is 3
Any way it’s the same number as a local very well known highway. It’s basically useless. Not that any fire department would ever come here.
I live in a nonexistent place. Not to mention it’s on a ‘cursed’ holy indian burial ground/ black hole thingy.
The first number of my street address is an unreal number multiplied by the imaginary unit. Imaginary number - Wikipedia There is no number on my house, only on the road, so we just call the house, The House.
I have relatives down in Arkansas who don’t just go home, they go to The House at the end of the day or when an event is over. “What are you doing next? We are going to The House.” I would say we are going home but they might not understand.
The remaining numbers on my address cannot be relied upon, they are inconsistent and subject to change.
Would you like for me to tell you about my passwords?
Anyone else wondering whether this is a reeeeeally elaborate identity-mining conspiracy?
First it was what’s your last digit, now it’s first digit, next comes “Are your middle digits a prime number?” to get some of those. Later, as we’re lulled into a false sense of security, it’ll be “What mental images come to mind when you think of the name of your street?”
“I love my street, because Flanders reminds me of a field of poppies, where Maude Flanders is buried…” and, BAM! The Anti-Doper Strike Force is delivering a DedEx package to your door, being carried by a dozen ninjas “at the sender’s request”.
The last time anyone did a study (long, long ago), the mode number of posts was 0, and the median was 1. Though of course you wouldn’t see that in the results of a poll, because the responders would overwhelmingly be from those who post more.
I’m not sure why you’d hypothesize that. I would expect pretty much what we see here, that the distribution follows Benton’s law. Like why would 1-7 be distributed evenly? Overall, there should be more addresses with 1 than 2 than 3 than 4, as it becomes less and less likely that 4-digit addresses with that high a number exist in certain locations. For example, here in Chicago, if you live on an east-west street, 1-3 are far more likely in a 4-digit address than the other numbers, and 4 is more likely than 5-9 (with 8 barely registered and 9 non-existent.) It’s not going to be exactly the same in other cities, of course, but as you go farther down the numbers, I would expect there to be fewer addresses.
Yes, the methodology was just to take a sampling of all of the userID numbers (which no longer exist, so this wouldn’t work any more). But there weren’t all that many banned users in the sample. Apparently there are just a lot of people out there who sign up for accounts on sites that they never intend to use.
Benford’s Law doesn’t properly-speaking apply to distributions that can include 0.
Some places (Costa Rica for example) don’t really use house numbers or street numbers. It’s all navigation by landmarks. “Go north from the church, take a left at the park, and look for the second blue house.”
How does this poll account for that sort of situation?
Many places base house numbers on distance or blocks. The system is often explained on older phone directories that I use often. I am west of Cleveland and the E-W address at the corner of my street is 29000. My N-S road is 29 blocks from downtown Cleveland.
The Page-Baldwin Rural Numbering System used mileage. 1000 to a mile, individual lots were 25 feet.wide. In towns like Elyria and Lorain, Ohio, if you remodel your business and the door moves from one end of the building to the other, your store’s address might change. I run into this from time to time trying to determine exactly where a business was, as the address no longer exists.
Think that’s crazy? Airport runways are given numbers according to their magnetic heading (rounded to the nearest 10 degrees). As everyone knows, the Earth’s magnetic pole drifts. Every once in a while, all the nation’s airports get their runway numbers changed.
