How does the Caremeter (headline popularity) work?
The caremeter is a score based on the number of clicks on a particular link by a unique IP address, weighted by how recently it was clicked, and how many links total have been clicked in the past 24 hours. For example, if you click a headline right now, it’ll receive a weight of 86400 (the number of seconds in a 24 hour period). As each second goes by, the weight decreases by one. After an hour, your click would only be worth 82800. It also takes into account how many clicks total have been reported in that 24 hour period, and how popular they’ve been on average. Don’t take it too seriously. It’s completely unscientific, and is just there to give you a general idea of what other people are finding interesting enough to look at.
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