http://www.saltshaker.net/20051229/almost-philadelphia Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:13:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.saltshaker.net/20051229/almost-philadelphia#comment-10295 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:16:50 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/20051229/almost-philadelphia#comment-10295 [...] So what does it all mean? Not a damned thing. For all I know, out of those 2.5 million hits, only a few hundred have really ever read anything on the blog. After all, right off the bat we know 2 million of them barely stayed on the blog long enough to read the title. And, of course, every time I mention something that’s off-topic (like the listing of countries here), it generates visitors who have no interest in reading what I write about, but have other agendas to pursue. [...] [...] So what does it all mean? Not a damned thing. For all I know, out of those 2.5 million hits, only a few hundred have really ever read anything on the blog. After all, right off the bat we know 2 million of them barely stayed on the blog long enough to read the title. And, of course, every time I mention something that’s off-topic (like the listing of countries here), it generates visitors who have no interest in reading what I write about, but have other agendas to pursue. [...]

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