Screen Time Statistics

Author: MijaRex

Publication date: 09 Jul 2020

Introduction
Hog‘s nickname was derived from his propensity to hog the limelight on stage.

Hypothesis
The amount of screen time each member of FAH gets has never been timed in order to prove whether or not Hog really does Hog the screen. Until this FAHn did some... FAHccounting!

This hypothesis will be rigorously tested and the question will be settled once and ever... or until the next Hog-free sketch premieres.

Methods
To make data gathering more manageable (because a sample size of over 300 videos is crazy to go through for one person, or is it?) there were a couple of ground rules stuck to, as to make it fair. No playing favourites here!
 * 1) Each member must have their face in the screen. No back of the head shots, leg shots, chest down shots. The face in the background of a sketch DOES count.
 * 2) Outros are included. This makes up for some of the shorter sketches and plus, it is still screen time!
 * 3) The times are to be as accurate as possible. There is obviously going to be a scientific variable that milliseconds will vary due to the stop/start time of switching between FAH, as well as the reaction time of the stopwatch.
 * 4) The cut-off point is based on view counts on YouTube: every upload with a view count of 500K and higher (at the time of publication) has been included. That way there is a clear line on where the viewing ends. This resulted in a data set of 29 videos. The cut-off point may be expanded to include videos with lower view counts in a follow-up to this article.
 * 5) Screen time has been recorded with a stopwatch with millisecond precision and then entered into an Excel spreadsheet in a H:MM:SS.sss format. The data was then rounded off to the nearest second to account for human error, using the format H:MM:SS.

Data
The table below lists the top 29 videos (500K+ views) on FAH’s channel with the respective screen times for Foil, Arms and Hog (in H:MM:SS).

The next table shows screen time subtotals for the same 29 videos (H:MM:SS) based on their view counts, in descending order and in 100K increments. For the sake of continuity, videos that had over 1 million viewers have been grouped together. This table also provides the total screen time for each FAH member.

Graphs
This graph plots each member of FAH against their respective screen time tally in each of the 29 top videos.



This graph shows the overall time count based on the view count in 100K increments (including the overall views).



Calculations
Hog is clearly in the lead with 3 minutes and 25 seconds more screen time than runner-up Foil, and 7 minutes 46 seconds more screen time than Arms.

On average, Hog spends 1 minute and 51 seconds on screen per sketch. This is a 7 second average lead on the runner-up Foil (1 minute 44 seconds), and a 23 second average lead on Arms (1 minute 28 seconds).

Discussion
So is Hog really a screen hogger? It really is a close call.

The short answer is ye, because the data clearly shows that Hog does, indeed, have a couple of minutes on the next FAH member in the screen time race (Foil).

Anne Flanagan has provided clear and concise words with the boys in making sure that the screen time is perfectly angled into her views alone, and not that of Barry’s chicken nugget habits, or the amount of times Oisín has tried to help her in the kitchen. Her only view point is that she is crucial that her lead must be taken regardless of if she makes an appearance or not.

Another reason that Hog could have indeed taken centre stage is for the uncontrollable need to make sure his curls remain the centre of attention, rather than the more recent fiasco of Arms post lockdown haircut, threatening (lightly) to ban people for mentioning it over his bouncy curls.

Conclusion
Based on an objective and methodic analysis of respective screen times for Foil Arms & Hog's most watched videos, Hog's propensity to hog the limelight translates well to their sketches recorded for the screen.

Therefore, we conclude that Hog is not only a hogger of the limelight on stage, but also of YouTube screen, and that his nickname stands as true.

This paper has been peer-reviewed by FAHns.