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About Those Medium Stats
I conducted an experiment…
Recently a follower messaged me and asked my why I don’t write a lot of metaphysical spirituality articles like I used to in years past instead of all the fiction I’ve been putting out recently.
My immediate knee-jerk response was that I really, really, really enjoy writing fiction. It makes me happy.
But that question made me think (always a dangerous thing). So I decided to undergo an experiment.
I had just finished writing a short fiction piece. I published it then immediately went into my drafts folder and published a metaphysical spirituality piece that had been sitting in there for a while. I never publish two pieces so close to each other but I did it for reasons of research.
Nine hours later I checked my stats page. To my surprise I saw that both pieces had exactly 10 views (fairly typical). But when I looked further at the stats I saw that there were a few glaring differences…
The metaphysical spirituality piece:
10 views, 5 reads, 50% read ratio, and 7 fans clapping
The short fiction piece:
10 views, 10 reads, 100% read ratio, and 2 fans clapping
