It’s a commonly repeated – and popular – bit of wisdom that Winter brings higher levels of usage to Second Life, and Winters are quieter. It’s most commonly thought that it is an effect of people doing more stuff away from the computer when it isn’t bloody freezing out.

Well, to prove or disprove that requires going back to the data.

Here’s the usage data from Spring 2006 to Spring 2011 (the Northern Hemisphere’s seasons).

Just from eyeballing the data, I think it’s pretty clear that there’s no significant correlation to suggest that Winters are better than Summers for Second Life usage. There’s a slight trend that suggests the opposite, but the effect really isn’t statistically significant.

It might be something that ‘everybody knows’, but it just isn’t actually there when you go back to the data.

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Tags: Opinion, Second Life, Statistics, Virtual Environments and Virtual Worlds