100 Books Meme – Summary Statistics September 13, 2007
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The 100Books meme has made the rounds of the blogosphere for some time now, and I have examined the responses of 200 blogs, but haven’t yet decided what it all means. Partially, this has to do with the eccentricity of the list itself. Respondents are predominently within a demographic that I can only describe as “literate knitters.” Hard to generalize from it, is what I mean to say. I’ve got a plan to remedy that, which I’ll get to later. First, here are the boring summary statistics as a pdf.
The blogger in the sample who read the fewest read only four of these books. One blogger claimed to have read 90 of them. And the average blogger claimed to have read 39 of them. [I would have read 39 of them, too, if I had read all of the books I was supposed to read in school. But I charted my own course, which explains my disappointing grades.]
I haven’t had much chance to look at the cross-tabulations yet, but I did notice a couple of oddities:
- Eleven people read Tolkien’s Return of the King without having read The Fellowship of the Ring. What, if any, is the deal with that?
- Ten people read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but did not read Harry Potter and the Sourceror’s Stone (AKA HP and the Philosopher’s Stone). Similarly, WTF?
More to come.
That is interesting. Maybe people saw the movie versions of the books, then just read certain books. Weird.
Interesting results – strugglingwriter’s reasoning behind people not reading the first books of a series seems the most likely explanation, it is very strange though.
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