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Bork
Executive Hillbilly
Location: Vinson Mountain, GA
- #1
- Posted: 06/23/2010 21:14
- Post subject: Decade stats
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Riskin' that it becomes common knowledge that I'm a bit of a statistics nerd, I played around with my list of rated albums and noted that the average rating differed wildly between the decades. Not surprised to see the results really, but here is hard evidence that the 70's were the best decade in music (I just calculated the average rating of all the albums I have rated so far):
1970's 80 point av. (144 rated albums)
1980's 75 point av. (102 rated albums)
1960's 70 point av. (85 rated albums)
1950's 70 point av. (29 rated albums)
1990's 65 point av. (75 rated albums)
2000's 60 point av. (120 rated albums)
2010's 55 point av. (16 rated albums)
It is thus established that in the 1970's the albums were on average 33% better than they were in the 2000's.
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RFNAPLES
Level 8
Gender: Male
Age: 76
Location: Durham, NC, USA
- #2
- Posted: 06/23/2010 22:05
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"Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'"--Mark Twain
You might be interested in:
Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics (illust. I. Geis), Norton, New York, 1954, ISBN 0393310728 _________________ Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by RFNAPLES
Bubbling Under The Top 100 Greatest Mus...y RFNAPLES
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Charicature
Age: 49
Location: Vermont
- #3
- Posted: 06/24/2010 00:59
- Post subject: Re: Decade stats
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Bork wrote: | Riskin' that it becomes common knowledge that I'm a bit of a statistics nerd, I played around with my list of rated albums and noted that the average rating differed wildly between the decades. Not surprised to see the results really, but here is hard evidence that the 70's were the best decade in music (I just calculated the average rating of all the albums I have rated so far):
1970's 80 point av. (144 rated albums)
1980's 75 point av. (102 rated albums)
1960's 70 point av. (85 rated albums)
1950's 70 point av. (29 rated albums)
1990's 65 point av. (75 rated albums)
2000's 60 point av. (120 rated albums)
2010's 55 point av. (16 rated albums)
It is thus established that in the 1970's the albums were on average 33% better than they were in the 2000's. |
Congratulations! You're offically a stodgy old codger _________________ <(: @ >
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Cryptozoologist
Age: 32
Location: New York
- #4
- Posted: 06/26/2010 00:52
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[quote="RFNAPLES"]"Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'"--Mark Twain
You might be interested in:
Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics (illust. I. Geis), Norton, New York, 1954, ISBN 0393310728[/quote]
At first I didn't agree with this, but then I read it more carefully and realized you took the words right out of my mouth
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cartoken
The Seer
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Location: Paris
- #5
- Posted: 06/26/2010 06:46
- Post subject: Re: Decade stats
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Bork wrote: | Riskin' that it becomes common knowledge that I'm a bit of a statistics nerd, I played around with my list of rated albums and noted that the average rating differed wildly between the decades. Not surprised to see the results really, but here is hard evidence that the 70's were the best decade in music (I just calculated the average rating of all the albums I have rated so far):
1970's 80 point av. (144 rated albums)
1980's 75 point av. (102 rated albums)
1960's 70 point av. (85 rated albums)
1950's 70 point av. (29 rated albums)
1990's 65 point av. (75 rated albums)
2000's 60 point av. (120 rated albums)
2010's 55 point av. (16 rated albums)
It is thus established that in the 1970's the albums were on average 33% better than they were in the 2000's. |
statistically (scientifically) speaking your results are not significant.
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