The Mystery of the Single View
You can learn a lot from statistics.
I recently posted an article on Jacinda Arden (an Exceptional Leader) and waited for the reactions/comments to come in. Now, given that ‘politics’ has 467 thousand members interested in this topic, you would think that a fair number of people would have seen this article and given how current it was when it was published (she had just resigned from being prime minister of New Zealand), you would assume that at least a proportion of them clicked on it to see what all the fuss was about. Add to that the number of followers I appear to have and even adding in the tag of ‘New Zealand’ into the mix, you would imagine that the number of views recorded would be pretty high, maybe even in the hundreds.
Of course, of those theoretical views you would hope some people would have stayed long enough on the page to convert that into ‘reads’.
So how many views and reads did my article get? As of today, 3rd of Feb, I have one solitary view and zero reads. Not sure how that it even possible, statistically speaking. That’s like scoring only one mark in a multi-answer test. Has the article been blocked my Medium by any chance? I haven’t had any notification of it causing problems, it certainly isn’t contentious or derogatory. No swear words, no offensive content and certainly no racism.
