Written by Econintersect
We publish a report each week presenting a list of the articles Google Analytics reports as being the most read. Last week’s report is here. We think that does not necessarily reflect how much “value” readers have obtained from what we publish. So we are offering a second listing which combines the number of readers for each article with the average amount of time spent reading by each.
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Before presenting this new ranking, let us explain our thinking. If one article has 500 page reads with an average time for each of one minute we suggest that another article with 100 page reads and an average time for each of 5 minutes might have an equivalent “value”: 500 page read minutes.
This measurement does not attempt to quantify the value readers received. The 500 reading an average of 1 minute each may perceive much more personal value for their individual minutes than do the 100 who each spent 5 minutes. What this measurement of ‘page read minutes’ directly measures is the effective reader engagement by each article. Rather than “value” we might better say “engagement” or “used”.
After some consideration we have elected to try the term “usefulness” and selected the term “useful” for the title of the list.
The Most Useful Articles Week Ending 05 September
The number following each article is the number of ‘page read hours’ for that article.
The Most Important Thing To Look For In Today’s Employment Report (44.7) Jeff Miller
A Mathematical Model Of Modern Monetary Operations – 2: Simulating MMT (39.5) Steve Keen
Ancient Greece vs. Ancient China (38.2) Frank Li
A Mathematical Model Of Modern Monetary Operations (23.8) Steve Keen
01 September 2020 Coronavirus Charts and News – 94% Of Covid-19 Deaths To Date Had Underlying Medical Conditions. Past Vaccine Disasters Discussed. (21.6) Steven Hansen
Response Rates Sound An Employment Report Warning (21.0) Jeff Miller
30 August 2020 Coronavirus Charts and News – An Assessment On Why The U.S. Had Relatively Poor Pandemic Results (18.2) Steven Hansen
How The Pandemic Has Sped Up The Passage To Post Capitalism (17.8) Yanis Varoufakis
Evil Is The Root Of All Money (13.4) David Andolfatto
American Revolution vs. Chinese Communist Revolution (Version 2) (12.5) Frank Li
September 2020 Economic Forecast – Again Some Improvement But Economic Growth Remains Weak (10.2) Steven Hansen
Wall Street Not Connected To The Economy (10.1) Jim Welsh
July 2020 Real Personal Income Declined, Real Expenditures Improved (9.4) Steven Hansen
The Morality of Harvesting Jewish Souls (8.4) Sig Silber
Crop Updates September 4, 2020 – Corn And Soybeans Doing Very Well (8.2) Sig Silber
Adam Smith vs. Karl Marx (7.8) Frank Li
Documentary Of The Week: Hidden Toll Of COVID-19 (7.7) John Lounsbury
Tie – 04 September 2020 Coronavirus Charts and News – Russia Says It Has “Best Vaccine in the World”. Worries Grow Over The Current Economic Recovery That Favors The Wealthy. (7.6) Steven Hansen
Tie – Oops, You Bought The High (7.6) Sam Seiden
The above list penalizes articles which are quickly read and include videos that are watched on YouTube. The introduction and link to YouTube may take 30 seconds or less and then our reader may stay 5, 10, 20 minutes or longer with the video – this measurement gives no credit for that video time.
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