The law of averages...

[vaznetti]

I thought for once I would do one of those statistics memes, mostly because I thought they would be deformed in interesting ways, because I write a lot of drabbles, and a lot of what I have on AO3 are old, and sometimes backdated, works in Alias and XF, none of which get a great deal of attention -- for all of these I have a really long tail of stories where the word count is under 300 words and the other numbers are between 0 and 2. I think this is why there is so much discrepancy between the mean and median figures.

Word count: mean = 2185, median = 988
Hit count: mean = 709, median = 207. But if I take out the outlier, because for some reason the one time I wrote underage noncon it got three times as many hits as anything else I have ever written, the mean is 571.
Kudos count: mean = 35, median = 11.
Comment threads: mean = 4, median = 2 (closer than I expected, since I thought the median would be 0!)
Bookmarks: mean = 7, median = 2 (again, I'm just impressed that the median is over 0!)

So the closest works to the mean are:
Word count: Blind-sided Highway (2292 words)
Hit count: The Instincts of a Good Man (1617 words, 702 hits)
Kudos count: Scenes from something which is certainly not a friendship (3192 words, 34 kudos)
I can't do this for comment or bookmark count -- there are far too many to choose from.

Did I learn anything? Probably not, although the three closest-to-the-mean stories were all older, more obscure stories that I'm a bit fond of.