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Thursday, December 11, 2014

Somebody in France read a post here!

This is a fact, because Google says it happened.  Twice.

Now either two people in France looked at this blog, or the same person did twice.

Or, and  this is why facts are so flexible, a search engine hit the blog.  Or a spam robot. The actual fact is Google says two hits came from France.  That is the only actual fact, and even that could be an error by Google.

So I don't actually know if somebody in France read anything here.

It's an example of why facts are things to be skeptical of.

Of course Google also tells me that the following happened as well.

Germany, Norway and Ukraine all show one hit on this blog.  At some point you have to believe something about data.



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I don't want to get into a conversation over any of this on my blog, but if you post something scientific, it will appear after I look at it first. You can blame spammers for that little slice of hell.