Which Statements, Not How Many
Contents counts the distinct subsets a reader can come away with: the smaller of the two main figures, and the one that decides what they know.
Definition
What is met
What a reader actually meets
Contents, as distinct from impressions.
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The Widest Point Is the Middle
Contents peaks when a reader has met about half a set and falls away on both sides, which makes the halfway reader the least predictable one.
Analysis
Two Readers With Nothing in Common
On twenty-five of the forty-four pages, two readers of the same statements can share nothing between them. The condition is one comparison.
Recount
The Fraction One Reader Gets
How much of a set a reader reached is a simple fraction and the only quantity here that behaves as intuition expects. What is built on it does not.
Reference
Met and Missed Are the Same Count
Choosing which statements were met is choosing which were missed, so the contents figure mirrors. Two shapes agree on it for opposite reasons.
Recount
Ten Contents, Three Different Pages
The contents figure takes twenty-four distinct values across the record, and the busiest covers twenty-three shapes on unrelated pages.
Caution
The Page With the Most to Go Wrong
Ten published with five met gives two hundred and fifty-two contents, the largest figure here. Eleven shapes sit on that one page.
Analysis
What Both Figures Are Blind To
Three shapes on one page, identical in both main figures, where the count of readings that confirm nothing runs from all seventy to none.
Analysis