As most blog writer I also monitor the number of hits on my
blog. I noticed an interesting statistic. I have two pairs of almost identical
posts. How my father survived the war (134) vs. How my mother survived the war
(24) and Paternal grandparents (80) vs. Maternal grandparents (36). The numbers
behind the titles reflect the number of pageviews for each post. It must be a
male dominated society! How else could we explain the large discrepancy in the
number of people who are interested in these seemingly identical stories? It
would be different if rating after reading the stories would show that one was
more interesting than the other, but clearly, people made up their minds
before reading. Friday, June 8, 2012
INTERESTING STATISTICS - MALE DOMINATED SOCIETY
As most blog writer I also monitor the number of hits on my
blog. I noticed an interesting statistic. I have two pairs of almost identical
posts. How my father survived the war (134) vs. How my mother survived the war
(24) and Paternal grandparents (80) vs. Maternal grandparents (36). The numbers
behind the titles reflect the number of pageviews for each post. It must be a
male dominated society! How else could we explain the large discrepancy in the
number of people who are interested in these seemingly identical stories? It
would be different if rating after reading the stories would show that one was
more interesting than the other, but clearly, people made up their minds
before reading. 
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That's really strange,Thomas, well I've read and enjoyed all your posts!
ReplyDeleteThe society you grew up is of course familiar (after all it was Central Europe)and at the same time totally strange, just like communist Eastern Germany was really strange to me - actually I only went there twice, once while still in school and once in my thirties. And I decided never again to visit a communist state after that experience! The exception being Yugoslavia, which was much more liberal and the perfect place for our summer holidays ...
BTW, I'm also interested in other people's comments - but to get to them I have to scroll down all posts and look at every one. I know from other systems that they often have a function "last comments" which helps the reader to jump directly to comments which /s)he might be interested in.
Does blogspot have something like this and could/would you activate it ?
PS: I'm a newcomer to blogspot, so maybe there is a way to get at the comments directly which I don't know.
Wolfi
DeleteI moved the recent comments on the opening page. There are very few comments, mostly you and I. (BTW I appreciate your comments a lot!) About the communist countries, there was a tremendous difference between those countries. I understand your decision but it might have been interesting for you to explore the differences. This chance is gone hopefully forever, and we should not feel sorry for that. :)
Thanks, Thomas - I really appreciate that!
ReplyDeleteRe travelling (specially as a young man):
West Germany was also "building up again after WW2 which meant that all money available was put in new houses and infrastructure until the 60s. That's why we also had to "import" a lot of workers from Southern Europe and later turkey and Yugoslavia. My parents built a new house in 1956 and we didn't get a car (Volkswagen Beetle of course - got a rebate of 400 DM because my father had saved on the VW program before the war) and holidays were no option, especially abroad.
I remember my best summer was before the housewas finished - we had all necessities (what Hungarians call a summer kitchen) in the half finished basement and spent the school holidays there. The reason was that the house was just across the street from the river baths on the river Neckar - so we (mainly my sisters and me, parents had to work) could go for a swim or just some sun bathing and return for food and drinks to our house, marvellous! In later summer holidays I had to work for my first bicycle, my tape recorder, etc ...
My first holiday abroad was as a student - I got (as a "Highly Qualified" student) a paid four weeks in English summer school in Canterbury, England.
All this changed in 1969 when I finally decided it was time to finish university, I got my mathematics diploma and a job at an IT consultancy which paid really well - so I could start to explore the world.
Now I have to finish - we'll travel to Germany again tomorrow so I might not be online the next days - but I'm waiting for "New Adventures" on your side and I'll be back.
Have a nice weekend!
Sorry: In "a new car" the date should be added: until 1962. Please also excuse my typing mistakes ...
ReplyDeleteJust one question, Tamas. So, why did you first post the story of your paternal grandparents, and then the story of your maternal grandparents? Then, why did you first post how your father survived the war, and then how your mother survived the war?
ReplyDeleteIt's always the "faternal" that comes first. Its instinctive, I believe, for everybody (And probably tradition has something to do with it, too). Gender stereotypes are still deeply embedded in our culture and work in strange ways.
Excellent point Anita! I am sure I fell in the same trap as people who read the posts! Ingrained prejudice. Of course I could try to explain that I knew more about my father's history than my mother's, and it is really true, but I think I would have kept the order this way even if I knew the same amount on their history. I am just as much "programed" as the rest of the world.
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