stats don't compute

May 8th, 2011
Say I've been posting for 25 days - how can my overall stats be more for the past 30 days for some categories? For example: 900 views past 25 days, 936 views overall. Seems impossible to me and makes me distrust the stats.
May 8th, 2011
How the stats work is a bigger mystery than how the popular page works, I wouldn't fret about it.
May 8th, 2011
maybe because you have 30 photos? if you've only been posting for 25 days, but you have 30 days of photos, it would seem the stats are calculated by the views on the project calendar, not the actual date. I bet @eyebrows knows.
May 8th, 2011
SPace - nope - it tracked right along - I posted one a day and always the stats showed more in various categories overall than for the number of days posted. Guess I'll follow ATB's advice and not fret - just not look at the stats, because numbers that don't make sense make me crazy.
May 8th, 2011
@reba I don't look at mine unles someone has a thread about "highest rated photo" or somesuch....for the same reason - numbers anywhere make me want to figure them out. :)
May 8th, 2011
@eyebrows "algorithm" here's some randomness for your Sunday evening:

did you ever see the show about the guy who "memorized" the algorithm/patterns on the Press Your Luck gameshow? Fascinating. (Michael Larson)
May 8th, 2011
@reba this was my thinking exactly, they make me crazy too :D

Also I like "ATB" it makes me remember this which can only be a good thing.

@sdpace Nope, that's all news to me. Don't even know what the "Press Your Luck" gameshow was?
May 8th, 2011
@eyebrows probably just American idiocracy -- it was a gameshow in the 80's. They always yelled out "NO Whammies!!!" it was stupid...but that guy's story is pretty fascinating.
May 8th, 2011
sorry its all about us photo elitists who are bent on world domination by making you go crazy over stats that don't add up among other things.../wink
May 8th, 2011
@loztsoul - ah yes, i suspected as much
May 8th, 2011
One day I had 415 views, I felt very special. Today, so far I have 16. I don't think magic monkeys can count.
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