strathspey@strathspey.org:69469

Tom Halpenny

RE: Dances from around the world

Feb. 26, 2018, 11:36 a.m. (Message 69469, in reply to message 69468)

Yes indeed, I agree with the issues. Still, it is interesting to do
the comparison, and imagine the reasons, as you are doing, why the
relative number of published dances diverges from expected based on
proportional number of branch members.

Just for fun, I examined the devisor regions for all the dances in
books 41 through 51, after the year 2000, and generated the following
table for all regions.

Tom

Dances       Dances      Devisor
Published   Expected  Region
  18               16              Australia - New Zealand
  12               17              Canada
  14                 5              Europe
    1                 7              Japan
    6                 3              Rest of World
  40               27              UK - England
    1                 2              UK - Northern Ireland
  20              28              UK - Scotland
  14              20              United States America
126            125             Total