In his autobiography, Mark Twain confirmed that "there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." How true.
The second most popular was a light-hearted post about 'International Talk Like A Pirate Day'. How random is that?
I've been looking at the various stats that Blogger offer you regarding traffic to your site, in terms of what posts are the most popular, where people live, what browser they are using. And was very surprised at what I found.
According to this, the most popular post that I have ever written since I started this blog was a small article about the Father Dowling Mysteries, that I wrote as part of my A-Z of Detectives a year or two ago. What?
This doesn't really add up. What was so wonderful about these particular blog entries? In order to understand this a bit better you need to factor in other things, like the fact that that first post seems to get two or three spam attempts a week via the comments tab. Anything from internet mailings in Russian script to pedicures and the obligatory sales pitch for little blue pills. Thank heavens for Blogger's very effective spam filter!
Here's a few more quotes to round this entry off:
98% of all statistics are made up. (Author Unknown)
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. (Author Unknown)
2 comments:
Enjoyed reading these quotes Colin. thank you.
I love statistics. I really am that geeky!
My all time most read post is "My singing company album" which was just a bit self indulgent, however I guess it had many searchable names in it.
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