How Long Does It Take To Become a Minister?
Hello all, this is a new iteration of my previous
articles looking into how long it takes someone to rise from just joining the region to it's highest offices. Additionally, I utilized the data from
Every Minister Ever, which I've been updating every time we get new nominations, though the pivot tables might be a bit wonky. Finally, both
@Astrellan and
@Seva were huge helps in regard to finding the citizenship application dates for the majority of the people included in this study. So huge thanks and shout out to them as otherwise this article probably would not have been completed until the end of the year
In terms of data, this is limited to all nominations happening from January 2010 forward as in the early days of Europeia it is arguably impossible to find the actual account names of many of those citizens, and we had many more instances of people with like 4 posts being appointed to office, which would effectively skew this data entirely. Down the line maybe I'll do a version limited to the early days of the region.
Above you can see, that excluding outliers, there has been no real trend in how long it takes to be minister, over the years. The mean here is 455 days which is a little over half a year shorter than the time to President without outliers, (627 days). The median however is much lower, at 209 days or a bit over half a year. This is mostly due to the smattering of individuals who took a break or the oddity of someone like Anumia, who served as President prior to ever serving as minister. Thus, the median, given the struggles of trying to control for all possible breaks of the ~150 unique ministers is probably the best value to use here.
Above you can see the fastest risers to the cabinet based on their citizenship date. By far in the lead is Kraken, who somehow got appointed Minister of Communications a mere
3 days after applying for citizenship. Often such short time to nominations are based on previous NS experience such as Kraken's is. Additionally in Vulturret's case he was lurking in the discord for quite awhile prior to his appointment. Others such as Prim or Deepest House, were new promising members who were tapped to fill a vacancy mid-term.
On the flip side of things there are a lot of people on this list who were either just floating around the community awhile before getting involved through a minister position or had a long break between activity. OD is the most clear example of the second scenario as he took a years long break from being a member in very early Europeia before finally being elevated to minister last term. While it obviously would be great to account for those gaps, it is near impossible to identify the leave and re-join dates of someone like OD as that would not be recorded on the Citizenship spreadsheet due to it happening in the ancient history of Europeia.
Well, that about does it for that article, if you are curious about the full list, that is in alphabetical order
here. Thanks for tuning in!
