Comments on: Books, Mormons, and Statistics

By: Katya

Katya — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:48:38 +0000

Dave -

That’s really interesting. I’m curious to know how it happens to be “top rated” in Shelfari and “highly contested” in LibraryThing. Are there more people giving it a favorable rating on Amazon / Shelfari, for some reason? Fewer people giving it a negative reading? I’ll have to look around and see what I can find out.

By: Dave Hanley

Dave Hanley — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:03:16 +0000

it’s also consistently in Shelfari’s most discussed and top rated books.

http://www.shelfari.com/books?t=w

By: Kent Larsen

Kent Larsen — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:51:04 +0000

It is, in fact, that people disagree about it most -- it has the largest deviation in ratings (see http://www.librarything.com/zeitgeist/books).

By: Bored in Vernal

Bored in Vernal — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:04:16 +0000

I see it on GoodReads a lot as people’s “favorite book.”

By: E

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:16:15 +0000

Come on, just tell us the answer!

By: jessawhy

jessawhy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:24:16 +0000

Books people have received but never read?

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:15:42 +0000

I like the rating variance guess. From 1-5, I can see it getting lots of -10’s and lots of 100’s.

By: Isabel

Isabel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:14:51 +0000

Is it most often acquired but least often finished?

By: Ziff

Ziff — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:55:52 +0000

Thanks for posting about statistics, Katya. It warms my heart to see.

A few guesses:

Book its owners read most frequently?

Book most often acquired for no cost?

Highest variance in ratings (lots of 1’s and 5’s)?