On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Carcharoth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This assumes that page views correspond to people reading the pages. I > > suspect that a lot of people viewing a page just scan briefly for what > > they are looking for (I typically use Ctl+F to find something if I am > > in a hurry), or realise they are in the wrong place and click away or > > click onwards through another link. There is no way of measuring the > > number of people that stop and carefully read a page as if they were > > sitting down to do some bedtime or leisure reading, as opposed to just > > looking up some factoid. > > I'm sure the numbers are false, but numbers are always false. You make > points which are equally true of any article's statistics on > stats.grok.se (including the most popular ones), and this > overestimation is counterbalanced by the many forms of > *under*estimation going into the stats.grok.se numbers, like not > counting page views on any mirrors at all. Unless you have a reason to > think that the net error, inclusive of all these sources, leads to > overestimation, pointing out the possible error is a bit sophomoric. > > -- In which a discussion is repeatedly reframed as a confrontation, for no apparent reason and to no apparent benefit. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
