My last post (well, not the one about my murderous intentions) was the AO3 stats meme, in which I wondered why in the world "Bloody Doctors!" was such an outlier in terms of number of hits, garnering nearly 1300 hits when most of my short stories are lucky to get 300 hits over ten years. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thisbluespirit agreed that popularity is often inexplicable, though there's often bias from how long the fic has been available and from the size of the fandom, but she got me thinking, and then of course, the only way to really think about things is to do a data analysis.
Not a real one, of course. I don't have the expertise to do a real data analysis. But I did take data and I did analyze it. :P
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thisbluespirit agreed that popularity is often inexplicable, though there's often bias from how long the fic has been available and from the size of the fandom, but she got me thinking, and then of course, the only way to really think about things is to do a data analysis.Not a real one, of course. I don't have the expertise to do a real data analysis. But I did take data and I did analyze it. :P
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