Re: Surprising statistics

On Apr 29, 7:59 am, Joel Davison <jo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Wouldn't you have to say though that the bottom line of all this
> "seeking of attention" is nothing more than a symptom of your
> Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
>
> I know, by me responding with this post, I'm just feeding your disorder,
> but my main concern here is to ****ne some light on what's really going
> on with this new-found interest in statistics of yours, and to set the
> facts straight for those that might not be aware of your disorder.

There is no new interest in statistics.  I've been monitoring them for
months; years in some areas.

The issue here is the bizarrely high rankings given to webpages of
mine where statistics show little to no activity.

Like I just did a search in Google on "definition of mathematical
proof".  My blog page with my definition of mathematical proof came up
second.  It shows as having received 119 pagevies since January 1st of
this year according to Google Analytics.

And then I did a search on: Superman plot idea

I put it that way to emphasize that you don't use quotes.  That came
up number one in Google, though at least it doesn't come up at all in
Yahoo!

But do a search on: class viewer

And I get number one in Google and number two in Yahoo! for my open
source project called by that name.

Its statistics have been available for years on SourceForge.

To make it clear that I'm puzzled by the high rankings and not the
number of hits, I'll point out that a couple of years ago when I first
started puzzling over this odd situation, I actually looked directly
at hits coming to my page for my open source project as SourceForge
allows project administrators to do that, and the hit count was right
in line with the re****ted statistics.

So yes, it's bugging me.  Why in the hell do pages of mine rank so
highly when the hit counts and linkages to those pages indicate very
few people are reading them?

For those wondering if there was a bump from these postings, I just
looked and didn't see any.

Oh, here's a tidbit from the statistics though: crank.net has a page
ripping on me--a pure hate page slamming me as a crank and crackpot--
which links back to my math blog.  Google Analytics says that it
provides 2.55% of my blog hits.  Just in case you were wondering...

More trivia, the keyword that provides 3% of my blog hits according to
the same source is "fermat".

The top keyword is "mymath" providing 45.63%.  I have 1 hit each over
the last month for the following keywords:

rsa examples
partial difference equation
prime distribution
arguing math
fake math
goldbach news
goldbach conjecture

According to Google Analytics my math blog was visited over the last
month by people from 40 countries, of which Russia and China are
conspicuously absent.

The United Kingdom provided 450 visits, making it the most visiting,
while my own country the United States came in second with 377 visits,
over the last month.  Since January 1st of this year it has been
visited by people from 69 countries.  With 1,858 visits from the UK
and coming in second the US with 1,827 visits.

Hey, guess the Brits are more interested than Yanks in my math.


James Harris