WHY HAVE NOT YOU POSTED YET? (sic)

"Why have not you posted yet?" (sic)

Asked Robert in a comment on my last post.

I had been busy and did not write anything yesterday.

This peeved me a bit so I did a quick check on  the frequency and length (checking quality would be self-defeating) of Robert's posts compared to mine. As a control I also looked at the same with Richard's posts on Richard's Bass Bag.*

The result will not surprise you.

The average length of my posts (measured over 3 months of activity) is 400 words. Obviously some posts are brief and others much longer than that.

The average length of Robert's posts is 65 words. Some are shorter . Very few are longer.

The control group - Richard's Bass Bag, over the last 3 month period shows an average length of posts of 250 words. He has recently adopted a minimalistic approach to blogging and has all but abandoned his lengthy Saturday morning chat posts so it is surmised that older posts would, on average be longer.

When it comes to frequency my blog posts average MORE than one per day. This is because, well, sometimes I post more than once as The Curmudgeon but I do have 27 other blogs that require updating, not daily admittedly but the result is that, on average, The Curmudgeon Incⓒ posts more than once per day.

Richards Bass Bag, the control blog, has slipped of recent and the last 3 months figures show an average posting frequency of once every three days. Disappointing really.

Robert's blog - which is always the same one even when going by different names or being reincarnated after being deleted in a fit of religious pique (or fuelled by a tad too much of the amber fluid) averages a new post every third day. The current one is named Robert The Apathetic Sinner. Disappointing really (we all wish the lag would be longer).

Here's a graph to demonstrate the above.

I trust that this has been helpful.

* Purportedly the original bass bagging blog.