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Do Medium Pubs Enhance Readership?
A statistical study
Medium has always been a mystery of what works and what doesn’t work. Sometimes an article I expect to do well does not do well. Sometimes an article surprises me with more traction than I had expected.
If I were Pavlov’s dog and Medium were a laboratory doling out food rewards, I would probably starve.
The article explains my finding with placing articles under Medium publications, using a satistcal approach.
The Student’s T-test
It is one thing to analyze data with a squint or a gawk and make a sound conclusion in this way. But professional statisticians will not accept our squints and gawks. To gain their acceptance, we need to run our numbers through a credible statistical process, then reach our conclusion.
I will use the “Student’s T-test.” This test compares two populations. Each population set has its own mean average and standard deviation. To give an example, I have hand-drawn four charts. Each chart has two populations. The population with higher mean is to the right. The population with more variance is wider. These curves are normal distributions.
