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1. @surajrn And my childhood ruined; this time by statistics Graph: Every aggressive act in all seven #HarryPotter books http://t.co/50GWczK7vg

2. Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books: Via @MonaChalabi. Potter is a sociopat… http://t.co/VKKPixHM6p

3. I’ve just looked at the data and yep, they count “expecto patronum” and “protego” aggressive, which I think is a bit odd. In particular the patronus charm counts for almost all of Harry’s aggressive acts in book 3 (18 out of 26).

   Also there’s a fair bit of double counting – someone saying the spell twice in quick succession but as far as I can tell the repetition is often because it doesn’t work the first time, so it’s only really one attempt to cast the spell.

   PS I’m so so sorry, I’m a massive Harry Potter fangirl.

4. I’m sorry, I can’t resist having a nerd over this! I wonder if you could weight the aggressive actions – a disarming spell (Harry’s “trademark” expelliarmus is much less aggressive than the cruciatus curse. And do they count casting a patronus as an aggressive action?

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6. RT @cblatts: Scientific proof that Harry Potter is a raging sociopath? http://t.co/WklZ53pfFT

7. AHA! The light in the TedCruz newsday MT @cblatts: Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all 7 Harry Potter books http://t.co/YXx5N7MGvm

8. RT @cblatts: Scientific proof that Harry Potter is a raging sociopath? http://t.co/WklZ53pfFT

9. Scientific proof that Harry Potter is a raging sociopath? http://t.co/WklZ53pfFT

10. @jdhowgego @cblatts Plus modifying data to make it look good makes me squirm!

11. @conor_mckeever @cblatts Googling what Stata jitter comand means makes me realise I could be in over my head here! Interesting though.

12. @jdhowgego @cblatts I assume each character is given a different x-value (that’s near to integer book numbers) to keep em apart?

13. Why are some between books? RT @cblatts: Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books http://t.co/fmIAL8Zw10

14. AMAZING! Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books http://t.co/VMN8YXuJ4r

15. RT @cblatts: Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books http://t.co/jQqEjpYfDK

16. Still reading through this, but I would like to see this adjusted for the amount of “screen time” each character gets in the books. We see all of Harry’s aggressive acts but likely just a few of Bellatrix’s.

    That said, it wouldn’t make sense to just find the raw amount of time each character spends on-page and extrapolate upwards. Since the books are from Harry’s perspective, and a lot of people want to hurt Harry, we are often seeing (especially evil ones) at their most violent.

17. RT @drfarls: Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books http://t.co/ynSpcu4of1

18. Hermione is under-rated RT @drfarls: Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books http://t.co/wxdxHTdib8

19. Social science we deserve RT @drfarls: Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books http://t.co/wxdxHTdib8

20. Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books http://t.co/ynSpcu4of1

21. RT @cblatts: Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books http://t.co/jQqEjpYfDK

22. RT @cblatts: Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books http://t.co/jQqEjpYfDK

23. RT @cblatts: Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books http://t.co/jQqEjpYfDK

24. @timplified – for @goblinbabymum Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books http://t.co/BPkucyI2MY

25. @_hotcarl RT @cblatts Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books http://t.co/C2KlJhVTUT

26. RT @cblatts: Graph of the day: Every aggressive act in all seven Harry Potter books http://t.co/jQqEjpYfDK