{"id":300,"date":"2004-01-17T16:55:25","date_gmt":"2004-01-17T20:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=300"},"modified":"2009-01-16T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T21:05:49","slug":"east-coast-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/01\/east-coast-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"East Coast Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College sports fans debate endlessly about a supposed <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/page2\/s\/list\/eastcoastyes.html\">East Coast bias<\/a> among sports writers and polls. Most recently, this issue was raised in connection with the <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2004\/writers\/stewart_mandel\/01\/06\/mandel.mailbag\/\">omission of the University of Southern California<\/a> from the so-called &#8220;national championship&#8221; football game. As a Midwesterner, I feel obliged to expose the East Coast bias of Times &#038; Seasons.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nOver the past few weeks, I have been casually following the time zone distribution of visitors to Times &#038; Seasons, shown graphically below. (Our Site Meter keeps track of this and many other interesting statistics.) Although the majority of U.S. Mormons live far west of the Mississippi, over 40% of our visitors hail from the eastern time zone. This has been fairly consistent over the time I have been watching, even though the number of visitors shows a fairly consistent pattern of growth. Although a large Chilean readership would also explain this pattern, it appears to me that we are read most widely in the eastern United States. Since our entire readership has been developed &#8220;word of mouth,&#8221; I wonder why we would see this sort of distribution.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"server.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/WWW.timesandseasons.org\/archives\/server.gif\" width=\"450\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>P.S. Special greetings to our European, Asian, and Australian (not refelcted in this most recent graph) readers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College sports fans debate endlessly about a supposed East Coast bias among sports writers and polls. Most recently, this issue was raised in connection with the omission of the University of Southern California from the so-called &#8220;national championship&#8221; football game. As a Midwesterner, I feel obliged to expose the East Coast bias of Times &#038; Seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5552,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/5552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}