We prefer to live in the statistical middle, but read about the statistical outlier.

I confess that I am guilty of moral turpitude. When I sat down this morning and nestled up to my desk to write a new post, I  looked at which posts have had the most readership. What do you think? Mention Trump, taxes or Clinton or even Obama and the readership doubles. 

If I post some mushy principle to live your life by, the readership is a lot less. I am not trying to criticize my readership or infer you are narrow minded, it is just that everyone including me wishes to read about the planes that crash and not about the planes that landed safely.  The person that was shot yesterday is more interesting than the 356 million people who were not shot yesterday. The two car crash on highway 435 is more interesting than the 3,400 cars that traveled safely. And so on. 

We prefer to live in the statistical middle, but read about the statistical outlier. When I post for readership and not for principle, I become just like the mainstream media. It is moral turpitude.

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