User:Tamzin/Merica, Birmingham, and Venus

When looking at clickstream figures, it can be hard to tell how many outgoing pageviews is statistically significant. This essay proposes three units:
 * The Merica Unit, defined as the percentage of outgoing pageviews from Merica to Murica in October and November of 2021 (averaged): 36.82
 * The Birmingham Unit, defined as the percentage of outgoing pageviews from Birmingham to Birmingham, Alabama in October and November of 2021 (averaged): 2.37
 * The Venus Unit, defined as the percentage of outgoing pageviews from Venus to Venus (mythology) in October and November of 2021 (averaged): 10.58

Mericas are most applicable for pages that by design/necessity have a title that is somewhat surprising to our readers. They may be referenced as something of an upper bound of how many disambiguatory outgoings are reasonable. (If you add in outgoings to United States the percentage falls in the 60-70 range, but, since a redirect can only have one target, we count only the top disambiguatory outgoing.)

Birminghams are most applicable for pages with regional difference in expectations. Many Americans will expect the title to point to the city in Alabama or be a DAB, and form a small but consistent percentage of the page's viewers.

Veni (yes, -i; fight me) are most applicable in cases where, simply, most of our readers want one thing, but many want another, but without regional bias.