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→A few points from the research lead: I can't stop blathering.
Lastly, the use of User:Henrik's traffic tool was a bit of a stretch. Assuming that Henrik wrote the traffic-monitoring script correctly, it seemed to be reliable enough. The counts seemed to pass the reality check, too. Barack Obama got far more views than John Barrasso. However, note that another flaw with our calculations was that the study spanned the Fourth Quarter of 2007, but we only took one month of Henrik's traffic data (January 2008) to extrapolate for the previous 90 days. We were sort of forced into this, because Henrik's tool only came into being on December 10, 2007, so the closest "complete" month of traffic data was January 2008. Of course, 2008 was an election year, so that certainly had some skewing effect on candidates up for re-election, versus those who were not running in any race. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 10:57, 29 May 2009 (PDT)
Lastly, the use of User:Henrik's traffic tool was a bit of a stretch. Assuming that Henrik wrote the traffic-monitoring script correctly, it seemed to be reliable enough. The counts seemed to pass the reality check, too. Barack Obama got far more views than John Barrasso. However, note that another flaw with our calculations was that the study spanned the Fourth Quarter of 2007, but we only took one month of Henrik's traffic data (January 2008) to extrapolate for the previous 90 days. We were sort of forced into this, because Henrik's tool only came into being on December 10, 2007, so the closest "complete" month of traffic data was January 2008. Of course, 2008 was an election year, so that certainly had some skewing effect on candidates up for re-election, versus those who were not running in any race. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 10:57, 29 May 2009 (PDT)
:Ack! I forgot to even mention that the research team had collected an even larger tally of "errors" in the articles about the 100 senators than what was posted on Google Docs; however, before publication of the database, I personally removed a substantial number of "rows" in the database that constituted more ''minor'' typographical or other grammatical edits that simply didn't offend the sensibilities. If I recall, I removed about 30 or 40 such rows. -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 11:37, 29 May 2009 (PDT)