The poll is going better than I ever expected, in particular the level of participation. I need to thank Petra for telling Staci, and thank Staci for featuring the poll in a blog entry. I have spent an hour crunching numbers in amazement, not regarding the poll, but rather the staggering (for me) traffic that has been generated.
I've written about Google Analytics before. The data fascinates me. My numbers for January 12th have trumped everything that has gone before. I've been tracking for seven months now, recording almost 9,000 visits and 3,700 visitors. Tuesday was unprecedented. I'm fully aware that a large number of these folks won't come back again, but I've added a few followers and gotten first-time comments from many. I have bunches of observations about the data, but I know that eyes are glazing over, so I'll move on.
I'm enjoying the anecdotes, and the detailed variations in handedness. Even the right-handers seem to do major things with their left hands. I claim lefthandedness, but I secretly believe that I am ambidexterous. Writing and throwing are the only activities exclusive to my left hand. I eat with both, bowl with both, bat right, golf right. Indecision seems to be a theme for me.
The happiest news about all the traffic that has crossed my threshold is that the poll might get enough votes to approach statistical significance. I had hoped to reach 50 votes, a number that should easily be tripled now. If you haven't voted, by all means do so. Everyone should be able to pigeonhole themselves into one of the categories. Analysis(?) of the results should be online Monday morning.
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5 hours ago
So, so glad you got the traffic boost - for real, this is such an interesting question, I am aching to see how out of standard we are as a group.
ReplyDeleteBeyond that, you deserve a really big readership.
Keep up the great stuff.
xoxox - Petra
So did you vote left then?
ReplyDeleteI never tried writing with my left hand because it make sense if you write left to right to not smudge what you have just written, I remember inkwells at our desks!
Just gave it a try and it is no less legible after only a minute than my right hand after a big number of years! really needed more box options!!
I have seen maps of visitors and where they came from and numbers on other sites but still can't bring myself to do it and "know" about traffic to my blog. I had stopped looking at profile visits which is my only indicator and it may yet reach four figures which is a big jump. Out of all these visits why do people leave comments so infrequently?
Golfer?
Caroline xxx
I can't remember why, but years ago I pretty much abandoned writing in longhand, for printing. Probably because my longhand was so atrocious, that I couldn't read my own notes. When I do try to write in longhand now, it feels very cumbersome.
ReplyDeleteCaroline, I remember desks with inkwells too, but by the time I got to school, the quill had long been abandoned, and the fountain pen was the standard. We all had our own little jars of ink, that we never failed to make a mess with. We truly were inky wretches. Then some genius invented the cartridge fountain pen, that you loaded pre-filled plastic ink cartridges into. It took much of the messy fun out of writing with liquid ink. The trouble with the cartridges, was they only came five or six to a pack, and when you ran out, you had to go buy more. I solved that problem by taking a plastic hypodermic syringe, that was left over from the penicillin injections my mother gave me when I had strep throat, and used it to transfer ink from a bottle to the empty cartridge, and restore the messy fun. What do you think would happen to a kid in school today, if they found to have a hypodermic syringe in their desk? Just goes to show how times have changed.
Melissa XX
Melissa, you never used dipping pens in an open ink well? You must be claiming to be older than you are!
ReplyDeleteCaroline xxx
Loved your "left-handed" article and so happy you're getting a traffic boost with the attention it has drawn. That is exactly the kind of intelligent writing that we need more of in the trans community. The old-school societal norm of being right-handed or being seen as unintelligent or inferior (as a lefty) is an excellent example of an outdated view that illustrates where the social taboo of being trans will be in the future. Thanks for sharing your personal experience on that.
ReplyDeleteI'm a righty, btw. Can do a lot with my left hand, but it is not natural and have to work at it.
Good job girl hehe. I just wanted to let you know you have been given an award =)
ReplyDeleteGlamorous Blog Award