Best time for that blog post… or not

Saw an article that claims Thursday after lunch is the best time to post your blog entry. But the study is flawed, not because it is necessarily incorrect, but because it does not document the methodology used.

For instance, did you normalize your data by day and by hour? How do I know most hot posts don’t occur at Thursday noon just because that’s when the most posts are submitted, so the probability of getting a high rank is just proportional to that volumne of submission.

Pretty awesome that the analysis was done in R, though. Give us some methods (preferrably with code), please.

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