Posted by Jock on October 02, 2007 at 14:35:17 from 86.153.128.72 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: . . about the Beckfoot plumbers - the REAL ISSUE posted by Joy on October 02, 2007 at 14:02:59:
406,000 entries on Google when I enter the words Shakespeare and sanitation.
Only 9680 entries for Ransome and sanitation.
49,600,000 Google entries when I enter "Shakespeare"
316,000 entries when I enter "Arthur Ransome"
Could the fact that there are approximately 100 times
more references to the bard than to our favourite
children's author be skewing the results of your research.
Adjusting for the overall sample size gives us a higher
percentage of AR references also refer to sanitation (3%) than
Shakespeare references (0.8%)