If you answer a question and then get an account, it will not count that answer as a contribution on your account. You must be signed into your account to get contributions - contributions are not...
There is no accurate answer to this but I believe that there are more unregistered accounts that contribute either because they don't have an account, or they have forgotten to log in.
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