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Power Blogging: What We Did

Started by goodwordediting · 9 months ago

Yesterday, I started presenting the statistics from our High Calling Blog Tour… I made the audacious claim that I have found a formula for predicting the traffic that a blog can drive through its links. Today, I’m going to build on that fo ... Continue reading »

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  • L.L. Barkat

    2 years ago

    Oh my gosh... I thought you were sci-fi... but, no! You're cliff-hanger!!

    (Gee, can't you understand we need to get our sleep tonight? How can you do this in good conscience? [did I spell that right?])
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  • Susan

    2 years ago

    I'm with LL - I couldn't wait to find out what was in the 0.8 - after all, I love regressions on Excel spreadsheets - however, I really prefer the 0.99 kind - and what do I find - NOTHING more about the numbers - on with it man!
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  • Marcus

    2 years ago

    Hmm. Are you accusing me of making you want to read more? Hang in there. I promise to reveal my secrets by the end.

    But you can't blame me for dragging this out, right?

    Susan/Halfmom, my statistician friend tells me there are no correlations as high as 0.99 in the real world. In fact, he said 0.8 was about as high as you could reasonably expect. He was surprised. Who knows if he's right or not. This is goodwordediting after all.

    (Though I always tested better in math than English. Funny.)
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  • Susan

    2 years ago

    Yes, he is right - in the "real world" of uncontrolled experimental factors (people and nature).

    Sorry, I forgot you were language driven - it was an nerd joke - tell your statistician friend that I was referring r squared for predicting unknown concentrations and then he'll understand -

    although, I must say the day when one of our elders stood up to present a new year's budget with a graph and a predicitive correlation of 0.79, I had to giggle.

    Now, ON WITH THE STORY MAN!!!
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